Select Committee on Procedure First Report

 

Annex 1: Petitions presented to the House of Commons in Sessions 1994-95 to 2005-06

Session	Total Petitions Presented	Formal presentation (floor of House)	Informal presentation (via bag)	Petitions receiving observations	Petitions on which no observations made	% on which no observations made
1994-95	119	57	62	73	46	38.7
1995-96	77	49	26	39	38	49.4
1996-97(a)	55	40	15	24	31	56.4
1997-98(b)	99	73	26	55	44	44.4
1998-99	99	56	43	37	62	62.6
1999-2000	87	68	19	55	32	36.8
2000-01(a)	36	28	8	26	9	25.7
2001-02(b)	129	109	20	97	32	24.8
2002-03	220	194	26	178	42	19.1
2003-04	128	112	16	82	16	16.3
2004-05(a)	51	44	7	43	10	18.9
2005-06(b)	294	258	36	201	50(c)	n/a

(a)  Short session; (b) Long session; (c) awaiting observations from 43 petitions.

Source: House of Commons Library Factsheet No. 7 - Public Petitions and Journal Office records

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Prepared 22 May 2007