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CAPE January 2020 PT (Draft 1 Cc 160320) January 2020 Parliament Sitting 6th Jan 2020 Item 1: Attendance of Members Percentage of attendance, by party: Item 2: Bills Assented To, Bills Passed and Bills Introduced S/N Bills Introduced Bills Passed Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments) 1 Convention) (Amendment) Bill Bill Shared Mobility Enterprises (Control Banking (Amendment) Bill 2 and Licensing) Bill Active Mobility (Amendment) Bill Healthcare Services Bill 3 Geographical Indications 4 (Amendment) Bill Singapore Convention on Mediation 5 (Bill) Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, 6 Import and Transit) (Amendment) Bill National Environment Agency 7 (Amendment) Bill Item 3: Number of Parliamentary Questions Tabled Number of Parliamentary Questions (PQ) fielded, by party: PAP WP NMP Total No of PQs 75 21 14 110 No of Supplementary Questions 10 11 6 27 Average Questions per MP 1.04 3.56 2.22 1.38 Number of Parliamentary Questions (PQ) fielded, by Member: No of Qns PAP WP NMP Ang Wei Neng Daniel Goh Anthea Ong Christopher de Souza Leon Perera Walter Theseira Gan Thiam Poh Lee Bee Wah 5 Louis Ng Murali Pillai Zainal Sapari 4 Joan Pereira Dennis Tan Chia Shi-Lu Pritam Singh Intan Azura Mokhtar Lim Biow Chuan Desmond Choo Liang Eng Hwa 3 Melvin Yong Ong Teng Koon Rahayu Mahzam Saktiandi Supaat Seah Kian Peng Chong Kee Hiong Png Eng Huat Yip Pin Xiu 2 Teo Ho Pin Sylvia Lim Foo Mee Har Mohamed Irshad 1 Fatimah Lateef Lim Sun Sun Note: Pursuant to Order 20, Paragraph 3 of the Standing Orders of the Parliament of Singapore (Rev Ed 2017), a Member may have up to five questions on the Order Paper at any one time. Number of Parliamentary Questions (PQ) put to each Ministry, by party: No of Qns put to each Ministry PAP WP NMP Total Communications and Information 3 2 2 7 Culture, Community and Youth 6 0 0 6 Defence 2 2 1 5 Education 6 2 0 8 Environment & Water Resources 6 0 0 6 Finance 1 0 0 1 Health 10 1 6 17 Home Affairs 2 0 0 2 Law 4 1 0 5 Manpower 5 2 2 9 National Development 9 1 0 10 Prime Minister’s Office 3 2 0 5 Social and Family Development 4 1 1 6 Trade and Industry 6 4 1 11 Transport 8 3 1 12 Item 4: Number of Supplementary Questions Tabled Number of Supplementary Questions fielded, by Member: No of Qns PAP WP NMP Pritam Singh Anthea Ong 4 Leon Perera Liang Eng Hwa Sylvia Lim 3 Patrick Tay Ang Wei Neng Walter Theseira 2 Saktiandi Supaat Item 5: Participation in Second Readings of Bills Number of Members who participated in Second Readings of Bills tabled, by party: S/N Name of Bill PAP WP NMP Tota Statutes (Miscellaneous l 1 0 0 0 0 Amendments) Bill 2 Banking (Amendment) Bill 1 0 1 2 Income Tax (Amendment) 3 9 2 1 12 Bill Source: Singapore Parliamentary Report (2020, Jan 6), Vol. 94, Sitting No. 115 Data compiled by volunteers from the Community for Advocacy and Political Education .
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