Senate Statistical Summary 9/2016


No. 9—10 to 13 October

General
  10 to 13 October 2016 to date
Number of sitting days 4 30
Average length of a sitting day 9 hrs 43 mins 10 hrs 46 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 24 mins
(10 October)		 28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 49 mins
(12 October)		 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)
Hours of sitting 38 hrs 54 mins 323 hrs 13 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  10 to 13 October 2016 to date
Government business 11 hrs 53 mins 129 hrs 05 mins
General business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
12 hrs 45 mins
    2 hrs 20 mins		 96 hrs 29 mins
            14 hrs 07 mins
Questions without notice 4 hrs 14 mins 30 hrs 42 mins
Urgency/MPI 3 hrs 01 min 21 hrs 29 mins
Business of the Senate 0 hrs 15 mins 4 hrs 37 mins
Other 2 hrs 53 mins 12 hrs 12 mins
Adjournment debate 3 hrs 53 mins 28 hrs 39 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  10 to 13 October 2016 to date
Questions placed on notice 69 937
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
  • Question time held on:
 153
            4 sitting days		 1067
29 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 38.3 36.8
Notices of motion given 48 463
Petitions presented 2 17
Signatories to petitions 36 130953
Divisions 16 195

  Questions placed on notice from 16 September to 13 October 2016 inclusive
  Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 13 October 2016 inclusive

Legislation
  10 to 13 October 2016 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 2
                        1		 7
                        10
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 7 83
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 0 91
Passed in the Senate 7 68
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 1 27
Bills referred to committees 12 53

Business conducted in the Senate

2016

Pie chart showing business conducted in the Senate during 2016

10 to 13 October 2016

Pie chart showing business conducted in the Senate from 10 to 13 October 2016

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