Senate Statistical Summary 5/2017


No. 5—9 to 11 May

General
  9 to 11 May 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 3 18
Average length of a sitting day 9 hrs 16 mins 11 hrs 27 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 14 mins
(11 May)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 27 hrs 48 mins 206 hrs 13 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  9 to 11 May 2017 to date
government business 10 hrs 25 mins 93 hrs 36 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 9 hrs 39 mins
2 hrs 20 mins		 58 hrs 21 mins
13 hrs 54 mins
questions without notice 3 hrs 18 mins 19 hrs 13 mins
urgency/MPI 2 hrs 01 min 13 hrs 20 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 31 mins 3 hrs 03 mins
other 0 hrs 52 mins 3 hrs 01 min
adjournment debate 1 hr 02 mins 15 hrs 39 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  9 to 11 May 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 32* 230**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 108
3 sitting days		 645
18 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36 35.8
Notices of motion given 36 212
Petitions presented 2 2
Signatories to petitions 2114 2114
Divisions 16 137

*  Questions placed on notice from 1 April to 11 May 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 11 May 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  9 to 11 May 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
0		 4
9
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 2 49
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 47
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 2 24
Bills referred to committees 4 26

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Business conducted in the Senate

9 to 11 May 2017

Business conducted in the Senate

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