See in a joint project of the Civil Network OPORA and journalists Yuliia Bankova and Andrii Saichuk – TV program Dear Deputies, – broadcasted on June 16, 2013 on the 5th Channel: MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko, elected in single-member district #93 (Kyiv oblast); what the VRU was doing during the last six months, law-making activities in numbers and faces; division of forces in committees, and why they are closed.
MPs of VII convocation have registered 1,958 legislative initiatives during thefirst half-year period of cadence . Having registered 523 draft laws and resolutions, the AUU Batkivshchyna faction became the most active faction. The largest faction the Party of Regions is on the second place with 509 registered initiatives. Non-faction MPs registered 155 draft laws, AUU Svoboda – 110, the Communist Party of Ukraine – 106, UDAR – 95. 460 interfaction draft laws and resolutions were included to the general results of parliamentary activities.
Economic and financial issues were topical, with 492 legislative initiatives registered during the first half-year activities of the Parliament. 401 draft laws were devoted to politics and state administration; 350 – to law enforcement; and 296 to social issues. The smallest number of draft laws and resolutions concerned security and defense issues (15) and foreign affairs (14).
Economy, finance, and administration were mostly considered by the AUU Batkivshchyna (26% of its draft laws), the Party of Regions (39%), and the CPU (37%). AUU Svoboda was focused on ecology and environment – 22% of its legislative initiatives concerned these issues. 28% of laws drafted by the UDAR regulated the law enforcement system. Non-faction MPs were mostly interested in social issues (30%). 47% of interfaction draft laws pertain to policy and state administration.
The most popular committees are: Committee on Budget – 37 members; Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations – 28; and Committee on Taxation and Customs Policy – 27. The Committee on Matters of Pensioners, Veterans and Persons with Disabilities, and Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies are the smallest ones with seven members in each. Four MPs don't belong to any of committees.