01 November 2010, 14:57
Within the period of January-September 2010, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine received more than 85,3 thousand citizens´ motions, appeals and complaints. This number has increased by 16,4 thousand as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. The citizens´ activity can be explained by the active response of the citizens to the issues concerning the draft Tax Code of Ukraine.
According to the Citizens´ Applications Office of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariate, for a nine-month period of the current year, 980 citizens have appealed to the leaders of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, out of them 413 to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine V.M. Lytvyn. For the relevant period, Parliamentary Committees scrutinized 25,1 thousand citizens´ appeals. The Deputy Factions scrutinized 5,1 thousand appeals; structural subdivisions of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine scrutinized 54,9 thousand motions, appeals and complaints of the citizens. The Citizens´ Applications Office of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariate scrutinized 52 thousand of the citizens appeals, i.e. by 8,1 thousand more than for the same period of the last year.
The citizens´ letters addressed to The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine raised a number of issues. 33,8% of the citizens´ letters appertain to the issues of the financial, taxation and customs policy; 27,8% appertain to the issues of legitimacy provision and law-enforcement; 11,2% - to social protection and provision of pensions; 4,6% - activity of The Verkhovna Rada, the President and the Cabinet of Ministers, the People´s Deputies of Ukraine, public authorities; 2,7% - to housing and communal and road services; 2,3% - public health.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine received 29 thousand citizens´ appeals regarding the issues of the financial, taxation and customs policy, i.e. by 23,2 thousand more as compared with the relevant period of the last year.
For the indicated period, the Verkhovna Rada has received 24 thousand of motions, appeals and complains regarding the legislative support of law enforcement, constitutional rights and freedoms of the citizens.
9,7 thousand of the citizens appeals appertained to the issues of the social protection and pension provision.
Furthermore, the analysis of the parliamentary mail confirmed the increasing quantity of the appeals and complains regarding the citizens´ unions, religion and interconfessional relations.
Ukrainian Parliament received also citizens´ motions, appeals and complaints appertaining to the issues of housing, public and road services (2,3 thousand appeals), labour and wages (2,3 thousand appeals), public health (1,9 thousand appeals), state building and local self-government (1,4 thousand appeals), agrarian policy and land relations (1,4 thousand appeals), public utilities service (1,6 thousand appeals), education, science and research, innovational activity and intellectual property (931).
5,8 thousand of citizens attended private receptions at the reception office of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 661 visitors were accepted by the Parliamentary Committees, 163 by the Deputies Factions. The visitors sent 227 written requests and made 66 appeals during the personal reception regarding 305 issues.
All the citizens´ appeals received by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine are scrutinized pursuant to the effective legislation, those not concerning the activity of the Ukrainian Parliament and its authorities being directed to the relevant authority and local self-government bodies, public prosecutor's offices and courts.
According to the information of the secretariats of the deputy factions, for the nine months of the current year, the People´s Deputies of Ukraine and their assistants have been addressed by 246 300 electors. They scrutinized 102 500 written appeals, held 20 200 private receptions and 32 500 meetings with electors.