How much compensation do redundancy claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 4,949 UK redundancy tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £6,319 and the largest was £658,333.

What percentage of redundancy claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 5,384 redundancy claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 80% were upheld.

How many UK redundancy employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 11,866 redundancy employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Redundancy compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 177) | Tribunal Watch

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Redundancy employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Redundancy UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 11,866 UK employment tribunal cases involving redundancy claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,319 (the largest £658,333) across 4,949 cases. Tribunals upheld 80% of the 5,384 decided redundancy claims. These cases name 8,871 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 11,866
Median award: £6,319
Claims upheld: 80%
Largest single award: £658,333
Distinct employers: 8,871
England & Wales: 10,296
Scotland: 1,570

Compensation in redundancy cases

4,949 cases with a recorded award

Median: £6,319
Mean: £10,352
25th percentile: £2,843
75th percentile: £12,135
90th percentile: £20,607
Largest: £658,333

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a redundancy claim and a published remedy — 4,949 of 11,866 redundancy cases. Many tribunal judgments decide liability only, with compensation set at a later hearing, so they are not counted here. A judgment combining several claim types contributes its whole award. Nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any individual outcome.

Outcomes of redundancy claims

6,676 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Upheld	4,331	65%
Dismissed	1,053	16%
Struck out	576	9%
Withdrawn	540	8%
Other	130	2%
Settled	46	1%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 80% of redundancy claims were upheld — 4,331 of 5,384. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Redundancy cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	112
2018	212
2019	1,374
2020	1,990
2021	1,681
2022	1,651
2023	1,603
2024	1,474
2025	1,321
2026	448

Largest redundancy awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
1600759/2023	16 October 2023	Mr M David and others (see Appendix 1)	DRB Group Limited	£658,333
2303760/2022	19 April 2023	Mr P Smith & Others	GX Technology EAME Limited (in liquidation)	£492,728
3304188/2022	28 July 2023	Cyril Gregory	Petro Trace Limited	£340,213
2414266/2021	7 March 2022	Mrs N Denmade and others (see schedule)	Trinity Brands UK Ltd	£219,664
3303037/2023	28 March 2024	Miss K Lynch	Marshall Eaton Holdings Limited	£216,294
2404024/2017	28 September 2018	L Roberts	Logo Design Grp Ltd	£210,212
3300972/2021	5 April 2023	Mr M Crowley (1) Mr E Witney (2) Mr S Rolls (3)	Sterling Thermal Technology Ltd	£203,851
1404124/2019	18 February 2020	Miss L Power and 29 others	Pitney Fabrication Co. Ltd	£201,107

Top employers — redundancy cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy	500
02	Secretary of State for Business & Trade	266
03	Qube Qualifications and Development Limited (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation)	101
04	Harvard Technology Ltd (In Administration)	89
05	Thomas Cook Group UK Travel Ltd (in compulsory liquidation)	79
06	Testerworld Limited	73
07	Thomas Cook	47
08	Clarity Products Limited	42
09	Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration)	37
10	Total Home Delivery Limited	33
11	STA Travel Limited (in liquidation)	29
12	HS Realisations Limited (Formerly Hewden Stuart Ltd)	27
13	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)

All redundancy cases

11,866 cases · page 177 of 238 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
2414551/2019	4 August 2020	Mr Philip Spenceley	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)	England & Wales	—
2500877/2020	4 August 2020	Dr Swarna Vijaya-Dharma	University Of Sunderland	England & Wales	—
2414541/2019	4 August 2020	Mrs Mirna Meta	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)	England & Wales	—
2414549/2019	4 August 2020	Ms Charlotte Harbottle	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)	England & Wales	—
2414555/2019	4 August 2020	Ms Deborah Healey	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)	England & Wales	—
2414536/2019	4 August 2020	Mr Jamie Prentice	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)	England & Wales	£8,746
2414557/2019	4 August 2020	Ms Stacey-Rose Wells	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)	England & Wales	—
2414543/2019	4 August 2020	Mr Christopher Roberts

Methodology

Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the redundancy caseload if redundancyis tagged in its classification output. A single judgment frequently combines multiple claim types, so the same case may appear on more than one claim-type page. Per-claim outcomes come from the second-pass (LLM-assisted) extraction and are recorded for each claim a judgment decides; the success rate counts only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed). Award figures are taken from the remedy section of each judgment where present; cases without a quantified award — because the tribunal only determined liability, or because the remedy hearing is pending — are excluded from the compensation figures. Regional splits follow the tribunal's jurisdiction as recorded on gov.uk. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome; for any specific matter the gov.uk judgment PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative source.