Senate Statistical Summary 4/2016

No. 4—15 to 17 March

General 15 to 17 March 2016 to date 

Number of sitting days

3

14

Average length of a sitting day

17 hrs 46 mins

11 hrs 44 mins

Longest sitting day

28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)

28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)

Shortest sitting day

11 hrs 12 mins
(15 March)

08 hrs 34 mins
(1 March) 

Hours of sitting

53 hrs 17 mins

 164 hrs 13 mins

Business conducted in the Senate

  • government business
  • general business
    • including time spent on private senators' bills
  • questions without notice
  • urgency/MPI
  • business of the Senate
  • other
  • adjournment debate

 

33 hrs 16 mins
11 hrs 56 mins
02 hrs 26 mins

03 hrs 10 mins
02 hrs 03 mins
00 hrs 04 mins
00 hrs 29 mins
02 hrs 19 mins

 

68 hrs 14 mins
53 hrs 56 mins
09 hrs 26 mins

14 hrs 37 mins
10 hrs 22 mins
01 hrs 46 mins
01 hrs 45 mins
13 hrs 33 mins

Questions placed on notice

38*

233**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

  • Question time held on:

114

3 sitting days

515

14 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

38.0

36.8

Notices of motion given

45

134

Petitions presented

4

10

Signatories to petitions

3 742

114 778

Divisions

51

108

* Questions placed on notice from 4 March to 17 March 2016, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 17 March 2016 inclusive

Legislation

Introduced in the Senate

  • government bills
  • private senators' bills

 

0
                                    1

 

1
                                    5

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

14

 56

Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

10

35

Bills negatived

0

0

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

7

12

Bills referred to committees

4

22

2016

Senate business 2016

2016 - 15 March to 17 March 2016

Senate business in the period 15 March to 17 March 2016 

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