Senate Statistical Summary 3/2017


No. 3—20 to 23 March

General
  20 to 23 March 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 11
Average length of a sitting day 12 hrs 0 mins 11 hrs 6 mins
Longest sitting day 14 hrs 36 mins
(22 March)		 14 hrs 36 mins
(22 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 31 mins
(21 March)		 9 hrs 10 mins
(9 February)
Hours of sitting 48 hrs 2 mins 122 hrs 11 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  20 to 23 March 2017 to date
government business 22 hrs 43 mins 51 hrs 11 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 14 hrs 44 mins
4 hrs 28 mins		 38 hrs 8 mins
9 hrs 41 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 11 mins 11 hrs 40 mins
urgency/MPI 2 hrs 57 mins 8 hrs 1 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 10 mins 1 hrs 22 mins
other 0 hrs 7 mins 1 hrs 38 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 10 mins 10 hrs 11 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  20 to 23 March 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 44* 180**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 144
4 sitting days		 390
11 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36.0 35.5
Notices of motion given 53 135
Petitions presented 0 0
Signatories to petitions 0 0
Divisions 33 81

*  Questions placed on notice from 17 February to 23 March 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 23 March 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  20 to 23 March 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 3
3		 4
7
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 12 35
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 5 22
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 1 1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 1 14
Bills referred to committees 6 15

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - Gerneral business 34%, Government business 46%, Questions 10%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 1%

20 to 23 March 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 20 to 23 March - Gerneral business 33%, Government business 51%, Questions 9%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 0%, Business of the Senate 0%

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