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Annual Report 2004–05

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Management and Accountability figures

Output Group 1

Figure 3 Written advices provided by the Clerk, 2004–05
Type	Percentage
Privilege—advices to Privileges Committee	4
Privilege—advices to President on mattters raised by senators	4
Privilege—other advices	8
Other advices to President and Deputy President	7
Advices to other senators	63
Advices to other persons and bodies	14

Figure 4 Trends in the provision of advices by the Clerk’s Office
2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
103	88	73	116	141

Output Group 2

Figure 6 Legislation considered by the Senate
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Number of bills which passed both Houses	159	143	158	191	139
Number of bills to which amendments were moved	77	61	63	103	57
Number of bills to which amendments were agreed	59	44	44	74	36

Figure 7 Amendments moved and agreed in the Senate
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Amendments moved	1409	1058	1045	2313	497
Amendments agreed to	784	908	630	1457	264

Figure 8 Running sheets
Year	Number of bills	Number of pages
2000–01	49	253
2001–02	14	73
2002–03	29	172
2003–04	41	112
2004–05	15	46

Figure 9 Government legislation introduced in the Senate
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Number of government bills introduced in the Senate	26	13	8	7	32
Number of third reading prints produced	14	7	2	4	13

Figure 10 Questions on notice and petitions
Year	No. of questions on notice	No. of petitions
2000–01	1121	116
2001–02	657	64
2002–03	1189	94
2003–04	1459	195
2004–05	1145	107

Figure 11 Inquiries—number recorded
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
number of inquiries	9,500	6,000	4,460	7,320	6,800

Figure 12 Inquiries—percentage dealt with within five minutes
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
% of inquiries dealt with within 5 minutes	96%	92%	88%	94%	95%

Output Group 3

Figure 14 Legislative drafting services provided to non-government senators
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Second reading amendments	59	45	76	99	56
Private senators' bills prepared	18	14	23	20	14
Private senators' bills introduced	11	5	17	11	8

Figure 15 Legislative drafting services provided to non-government senators—committee of the whole amendments
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Committee of the whole amendments	2,262	939	2,078	1,715	607

Figure 16 Numbers of students who visited
the PEO Education Centre, 2000 to 2005
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Non-CVP students	63,992	65,907	61,123	61,517	61,664	63,293
CVP students	13,055	15,874	15,318	17,055	18,776	18,741
Total no. of students	77,047	81,781	76,441	78,572	80,440	82,034

Figure 17 Numbers of groups that visited
the PEO Education Centre, 2000 to 2005
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Non-CVP groups	1,819	1,872	1,769	1,727	1,713	1,780
CVP groups	424	540	498	578	611	638
Total no. of school groups	2,243	2,412	2,267	2,305	2,324	2,418

Output Group 4

Figure 20 Legislation committees—activity
Meetings	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Public	68	39	57	79	41
Private	169	132	140	173	118
Inspections/other	2	5	2	0	0


Total hours of meetings	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Public	245:37	140:44	395:33	248:33	131:08
Private	35:20	68:15	45:06	43:46	28:16


Matters referred	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Bill/provisions of bills	56	46	51	53	43
Other (inc. annual reports)	16	23	17	22	9

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Reports presented	53	44	54	77	64
Submissions received	905	1009	3019	1545	734
Witnesss	788	438	583	773	412

Figure 21 Legislation committees considering estimates—activity

Hours of hearings
Budget cycle	Budget: Main hearings May/June	Budget: Supplementary hearings October/November	Additional: February hearings	Total
2000–01	274	121	169	565
2001–02	301		201	502
2002–03	358	112	188	658
2003–04	358	179	187	725
2004–05	330		191	520
2005–06	352

Note: rounded to the nearest hour

Witnesses and evidence
Budget cycle	Number of witnesses	Number of pages of evidence
2000–01	3179	6324
2001–02	2452	5127
2002–03	3385	7156
2003–04	2973	6310
2004–05	3054	5997
2005–06	2110	4313

Figure 22 References committees—activity
Meetings	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Public	88	64	136	115	85
Private	140	111	112	133	131
Inspections/other	13	33	44	21	17


Total hours of meetings*	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Public	409	260	519	528	348
Private	52	57	42	73	56

* rounded to nearest hour


Matters referred	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
General	9	18	23	11	26
Bills/provisions of bills	4	4	1	2	2


	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Reports presented (incl. from inquiries current at 1July 2004)	13	18	10	21	41
Submissions received	3,555	1,591	1,953	3,954	891
Witnesses	1,128	1,049	1,719	1,294	1,007

Figure 23 Committee meetings,
2004–05, by location
ACT: 434
NSW: 28
Victoria: 17
Queensland: 24
WA: 14
SA: 5
Tasmania: 3
NT: 11

Management and accountability

Fig 27 Effects of the Staff Numbers Management Policy
	Staffing level
2000–01	186
2001–02	170
2002–03	162
2003–04	167
2004–05	166