House of Representatives Annual Report 2004

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2 Business of the House and Main Committee

Meetings of the House of Representatives, 2004–05
Events	Spring 2004	Autumn/ Winter 2005	Total
Sitting weeks	5	9	14
Sitting days	18	33	51
Hours of sitting^a
including suspensions (e.g. meal breaks)	186	307	493
excluding suspensions	168	299	467
Sittings after midnight	1	1	2
Bills introduced	99	116	215
Private members’ business items debated	6	22	28
Committee reports presented	28	42	70
Days on which
the adjournment motion was debated	16	30	46
grievance debate occurred	3	6	9
matters of public importance were discussed	13	24	37
private members’ business occurred	2	6	8
Divisions	25	73	98
Closures of question agreed to	2	6	8
Closures of member agreed to	6	20	26
Bills guillotined	–	–	–

a Hours of sitting are rounded to the nearest whole hour.

Meetings of the Main Committee, 2004–05
Events	Spring 2004	Autumn/ Winter 2005	Total
Number of meetings	9	22	31
Hours of meeting (excluding suspensions)^a	31	92	123
Bills referred	16	16	32
Committee and delegation reports referred	–	3	3
Other papers debated	1	7	8
Adjournment motion debated	4	9	13

a Hours of meeting are rounded to the nearest whole hour.

Bills and amendments dealt with by the House of Representatives (including the Main Committee), 2001 to 2005
Event	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Total government bills (including bills brought from the Senate)	161	239	153	223	109
Introduced in
the House	139	230	145	207	96
the Senate	22	9	8	16	13
Second reading amendments moved	47	37	45	49	27
Consideration in detail amendments moved
Government	871	766	160	71	48
Opposition	65	165	85	76	23
Independent member/minor party	13	6	8	5	–
Private Government member	–	5	1	–	–
Consideration in detail amendments passed
Government	871	766	160	71	48
Opposition	21	11	1	–	1
Independent member/minor party	–	1	–	–	–
Total private members’ bills	19	15	21	9	7

Note: Totals shown are for complete years, except those for 2005, which are totals up to and including 30 June 2005.

Questions in writing dealt with by the House of Representatives, 2001–02 to 2004–05
	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Questions in writing to ministers	814	1,494	1,560	1,954
Answers to questions in writing	357	1,078	1,228	951

Note: The responsibility for responding to questions in writing rests with the individual ministers to whom the questions are put.

Petitions dealt with by the House of Representatives, 2001–02 to 2004–05
	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Petitions presented	222	324	555	245
Total signatures	128,969	335,045	468,250	138,606

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