The House of Commons has spent over £100,000 fighting staff employment tribunals, the Huffington Post UK can reveal.

Following a Freedom of Information request, the House of Commons revealed that it had faced 16 employment tribunal claims since May 2010, spending £91,310.93 on legal costs. Five of the cases were settled at a total additional cost of £14,218.96.

The revelation comes after a Channel 4 investigation found a third of young aides working for MPs claim to have been victim to their drunken sexual advances.

Reported by the Huffington Post UK. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.