Senate Statistical Summary 6/2017


No. 6—13 to 15 June

General
  13 to 15 June 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 3 21
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 3 mins 11 hrs 15 mins
Longest sitting day 10 hrs 32 mins
(13 June)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 33 mins
(15 June)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 30 hrs 9 mins 236 hrs 22 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  13 to 15 June 2017 to date
government business 8 hrs 4 mins 101 hrs 40 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 11 hrs 19 mins
2 hrs 24 mins		 69 hrs 40 mins
16 hrs 18 mins
questions without notice 3 hrs 11 mins 22 hrs 24 mins
urgency/MPI 1 hrs 59 min 15  hrs 19 mins
business of the Senate 1 hrs 25 mins 4 hrs 28 mins
other 0 hrs 04 mins 3 hrs 05 min
adjournment debate 4 hr 07 mins 19 hrs 46 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  13 to 15 June 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 5* 235**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 113
3 sitting days		 758
21 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 37.7 36.1
Notices of motion given 41 253
Petitions presented 1 3
Signatories to petitions 256 2370
Divisions 19 156

*  Questions placed on notice from 12 May to 15 June 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 15 June 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  13 to 15 June 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
3		 4
12
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 18 67
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 1
Passed in the Senate 18 65
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 24
Bills referred to committees 17 43

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - Gerneral business 32%, Government business 47%, Questions 10%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 2%

13 to 15 June 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 13 to 15 June - General business 44%, Government business 31%, Questions 12%, Urgent/MPI 8%, Other business 0%, Business of the Senate 5%

Note: These figures do not include time spent on adjournment debates.