Senate Statistical Summary 2/2017


No. 2—13 to 16 February

General
  13 to 16 February 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 7
Average length of a sitting day 11 hrs 14 mins 10 hrs 36 mins
Longest sitting day 12 hrs 30 mins
(15 February)		 12 hrs 30 mins
(15 February)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 48 mins
(14 February)		 9 hrs 10 mins
(9 February)
Hours of sitting 44 hrs 55 mins 74 hrs 9 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  13 to 16 February 2017 to date
government business 22 hrs 39 mins 28 hrs 28 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 11 hrs 07 mins
2 hrs 52 mins		 23 hrs 24 mins
5 hrs 13 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 18 mins 7 hrs 29 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 1 mins 5 hrs 4 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 28 mins 1 hrs 12 mins
other 0 hrs 6 mins 1 hrs 31 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 16 mins 7 hrs 1 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  13 to 16 February 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 22* 136**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 144
4 sitting days		 246
7 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36.0 35.1
Notices of motion given 34 82
Petitions presented 0 0
Signatories to petitions 0 0
Divisions 38 48

*  Questions placed on notice from 10 to 16 February 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 16 February 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  13 to 16 February 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
2		 1
4
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 14 23
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 8 17
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 13 13
Bills referred to committees 4 9

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - Gerneral business 48%, Government business 35%, Questions 11%, Urgent/MPI 8%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 2%

13 to 16 February 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 13 to 16 February - Gerneral business 27%, Government business 54%, Questions 11%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 0%, Business of the Senate 2%

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