19 October 2015, 15:14
According to the Department of Citizens' Appeals of the Parliament's Secretariat, in January-September 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament received 76,600 proposals, appeals and complaints from the citizens, which was 23,600 appeals more then in January-September 2014.
In January-September 2015, the leadership of the Ukrainian Parliament was addressed by 1,100 people, including 516 people, who addressed Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman.
Over the period under review, the parliamentary committees considered 15,500 appeals of citizens. The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Corruption Considered the largest number of appeals. Their number made up 4,200.
The Ukrainian parliamentary factions considered 8,600 proposals, complaints and appeals of citizens.
Structure departments of the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat considered 52,600 appeals of the citizens.
In January-September 2015, in their appeals, the citizens raised a total of 78,000 different questions.
At the same time, 26,500 questions touched the observance of lawfulness and protection of order, exercise of civil rights and freedoms. The most popular were the complaint against actions of prosecutor employees, which made up 4,300. A total of 3,700 complaints touched illegal actions of investigators, 3,400 — illegal actions of policemen, and 3,100 — rulings and sentences passed by courts, and 2,600 — actions of some judges.
Numerous complaints of owners of land plots requesting assistance in restoration of their right to use land caused considerable growth in appeals touching agricultural policy and land relations — 9,200, which was 8,200 more as against the same period of 2014.
Over the nine months of 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament considered 6,700 appeals on social issues. A half of them were the requests to provide material assistance for medical treatment, acquisition of medicines, repair of housing, acquisition of essential products and proposals to amend the effective social law.
In January-September 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament received a total of 5,700 feedback letters of citizens on activity of the Ukrainian Parliament, President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, state bodies and events taking place in the country.
The number of the questions related to amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine and the process of decentralization discussed by the citizens entailed the growth of the number of appeals on state building and administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine (4,400, which was 3,500 more than in January-September 2014).
In September-January 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament received a total of 1,700 proposals, complaints and appeals of citizens on municipal economy issues, 1,600 were dedicated to the issues of education, scientific-technological, innovative activity, intellectual property, 1,500 — on housing policy 1,400 on health care, 1,100 — on activity of local executive bodies, etc.
According to information provided by secretariats of deputy factions at the Ukrainian Parliament, in January-September 2015, the people's deputies of Ukraine, their consultants and advisors were addressed by 330,493 voters. They considered a total of 104,946 written appeals and conducted a total of 29,464 personal meetings and 40,654 meetings with voters.
A total of 17,300 appeals were received from pensioners, 2,500 — from entrepreneurs, 1,800 from unemployed persons, and 1,100 — from employees of state-financed enterprises, etc.
In January-September 2015, a total of 4,000 disabled persons of I-III groups, 1,500 disabled war veterans, 1,300 labor veterans, and 789 persons born in time of war addressed the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for protection and assistance.
Over the nine months of 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament received 9,300 collective letters signed by 359,400 persons.