yerty/press · data desk for journalists
The numbers behind the story.
Reporting on workplace disputes? Get the figure, the trend and the context in minutes — from the full record of published UK employment tribunal decisions, with a methodology you can cite.
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Key data sources.
Everything you need to cite, verify and build a story — linked and ready to use.
Yerty Index coverage
160,000+ decision documents / 250,000+ claims — date range, geography, fields structured, and what the published record can and can't show.
See what's in the Index →yerty/yerty-index/methodologyMethodology
How the dataset is built. Extraction accuracy, versioning, known limitations — in a one-pager your editor can read in 90 seconds.
Read the methodology →yerty/resources/employment-tribunal-statisticsEmployment tribunal statistics
Official HMCTS quarterly data — claims volume, backlog, waiting times, outcomes — with interactive charts and embed codes.
Browse tribunal statistics →yerty/tribunal-data/findingsTribunal findings
Chart-backed answers to specific questions — success rates, award amounts, representation gaps, sector trends.
Explore the findings →yerty/data-useData use & citation
How to cite Yerty figures, attribution requirements, licensing tiers, and citation templates for journalists.
Read citation policy →yerty/guides/employment-tribunal-statistics-q1-2026Latest quarterly report
11,857 claims received, backlog up 136% year on year, 36-week average waits — our analysis of the latest MoJ quarterly release.
Read the analysis →Before you ask
What the data desk is — and isn't — for.
The data desk supports institutional accountability journalism — companies, sectors, judges, policy trends, the impact of representation, regional patterns. The questions we can answer fastest and most usefully are about how the system works and who's in it: corporate respondents, judicial decisions, sector-level trends.
It's not designed for investigating named individuals or surfacing personal details from cases. Where a story angle involves an individual, we may decline to provide information beyond what's in the published decision itself, depending on the public-interest balance. Read more in our principles statement.
What you can ask us
Four kinds of question we can answer today.
Whether you're writing about a settlement, a sector, a respondent or a policy change — here are the questions we can answer fast.
Is this settlement big or normal?
Drop a reported figure in — we'll tell you where it sits in the distribution for similar cases by sector, claim type and year.
£187k disability discrimination award in retail → 94th percentile for this claim type, 2025
Is this industry an outlier?
Claims volume, award distributions, time-to-hearing — by sector, with year-on-year movement and statistical significance.
Hospitality claims up 14% TTM · driven by unauthorised deductions and unfair dismissal
How often has this company been sued?
Tribunal history for any organisation that's appeared in a published decision — claim types, outcomes, awards, named judges, dates.
18 decisions for [retailer], 24 months, 39% claimant-win rate, £187k total awards
How much does having a lawyer matter?
Outcomes compared by representation status — across claim types, sectors, and respondent size. The number that ought to be in every access-to-justice piece.
1 in 3 claimants at hearing had no representation · win rate differential 23 percentage points
The press kit
Everything you need to cite us properly.
Attribution, methodology, expert comment availability — the three things your editor wants documented.
Attribution
Figures from Yerty can be cited freely with attribution: Yerty, published ET decisions. Hyperlink to yerty.co.uk/intelligence-hub where possible.
Read citation policy →Methodology one-pager
Coverage statement, extraction accuracy, known limitations — in a one-pager your editor can read in 90 seconds.
Download the one-pager →Embeddable charts
Iframe snippets for tribunal backlog, findings and HMCTS charts — free for non-commercial blogs with attribution.
Browse embed codes →Expert comment
Available for comment on tribunal trends, access-to-justice data, and employment tribunal intelligence.
Request a quote →Quarterly statistics
Government tribunal data — with our analysis on top.
Every March, June, September and December, the Ministry of Justice publishes employment tribunal statistics. We publish an analysis the same day.
June 2026 · latestEmployment tribunal statistics Q4 2025/26
11,857 claims received, backlog up 136% year on year, 36-week average waits — our analysis of the latest MoJ quarterly release.
Read the analysis →On deadline?
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Same-day response for journalist queries during business hours. Send your question, your figure, your respondent, your story angle — we'll get back with the data and the citation.
Past coverage
Where Yerty's data has appeared.
A small selection of where the data and analysis have been used.
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Intelligence Hub
The full data platform. Browse, ask, visualise — every published decision.
Explore Intelligence Hub →yerty/tribunal-data/findingsTribunal findings
Chart-backed answers to specific questions — success rates, awards, representation.
Explore the findings →yerty/data-useData use & citation
Licensing, attribution requirements, and citation templates for journalists.
Read citation policy →