# Employment tribunal statistics: Contract Dispute Benchmark

> The Contract Dispute Benchmark carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 55 to 96 percent, read 12 September 2026.

Employment Contract Generator · https://employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk/datasets/contract-dispute-benchmark/ · computed 2026-10-25

**Range of the published figures:** 55 to 96 % (range 55 to 96 %; 3 published figures; 2 of 9 sources read publish one).

2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

## By measure

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measure employment tribunal open caseload, annual change | 55 % | 55 to 55 % | 1 |
| measure early conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal | 66 % | 66 to 66 % | 1 |
| measure early conciliation notifications made by workers | 96 % | 96 to 96 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025) | 96 % | early conciliation notifications made by workers | 2026-09-12 |
| [Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025) | 66 % | early conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal | 2026-09-12 |
| [Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026) | 55 % | employment tribunal open caseload, annual change | 2026-09-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (3)

- [Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025), read 2026-09-12: "Around 96% of all early conciliation notifications came from workers in July to September 2025."
- [Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025), read 2026-09-12: "66% of cases did not progress to the employment tribunal."
- [Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026), read 2026-09-12: "Open caseload also increased by 55% over the same period as receipts have exceeded disposals for the last few years."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [MoJ tribunals statistics collection](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics), read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2025](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025--2), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Guide to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/guide-to-tribunal-statistics-quarterly), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Acas service statistics](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Acas early conciliation and employment tribunal data](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK employment tribunals: what you can claim for](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals/what-you-can-claim-for), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK employment tribunals](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 3 figures, never sentences; 43 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the quarterly series of employment tribunal receipts and Acas early-conciliation notifications joined to the award figures per jurisdiction, expressed as the derivation nobody publishes: the cost of a claim against the cost of the contract that would have prevented it, per claim type, using the price index's median as the denominator

## Sources

- [MoJ tribunals statistics collection](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2025](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025--2) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Guide to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/guide-to-tribunal-statistics-quarterly) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas service statistics](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas early conciliation and employment tribunal data](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025](https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK employment tribunals: what you can claim for](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals/what-you-can-claim-for) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK employment tribunals](https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Contract Dispute Benchmark carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 55 to 96 percent, read 12 September 2026.
- 2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
- Contract Dispute Benchmark, measure employment tribunal open caseload, annual change: median 55 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Contract Dispute Benchmark, measure early conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal: median 66 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Contract Dispute Benchmark, measure early conciliation notifications made by workers: median 96 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

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