Senate Statistical Summary 7/2016


No. 7—30 August to 1 September

General
  30 August
to 1 September		 2016 to date
Number of sitting days 3 22
Average length of a sitting day 7 hrs 48 mins 10 hrs 52 mins
Longest sitting day 10 hrs 14 mins
(31 August)		 28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)
Shortest sitting day 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)		 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)
Hours of sitting 23 hrs 23 mins 239 hrs 11 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  30 August
to 1 September		 2016 to date
Government business 7 hrs 54 mins 97 hrs 53 mins
General business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
6 hrs 47 mins
0 hrs 0 mins		 73 hrs 50 mins
09 hrs 26 mins
Questions without notice 2 hrs 10 mins 22 hrs 7 mins
Urgency/MPI 1 hrs 3 mins 15 hrs 28 mins
Business of the Senate 0 hrs 29 mins 2 hrs 59 mins
Other 2 hrs 57 mins 5 hrs 38 mins
Adjournment debate 2 hrs 3 mins 21 hrs 16 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  30 August
to 1 September		 2016 to date
Questions placed on notice 99 857
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
  • Question time held on:
 77
2 sitting days		 766
21 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 38.5 36.5
Notices of motion given 74 371
Petitions presented 1 14
Signatories to petitions 15072 130346
Divisions 4 152

  Questions placed on notice from 5 May to 1 September 2016 inclusive
  Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 1 September 2016 inclusive

Legislation
  30 August
to 1 September		 2016 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
1		 1
6
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 0 67
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Government bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 18
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 17 77
Passed in the Senate 0 54
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 16
Bills referred to committees 8 30

Business conducted in the Senate

2016

A pie graph showing the percentage of business conducted in the senate for 2016: Government business 45%; General business 34%; Questions 10%; Urgency/MPI 7%; Business of the Senate 1%; Other business 3%.

30 August to 1 September 2016

A pie graph showing the percentage of business conducted in the senate from 30 August to 1 September 2016: Government business 57%; General business 29%; Questions 8%; Urgency/MPI 0%; Business of the Senate 2%; Other business 0%.

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