Senate Statistical Summary 7/2017


No. 7—19 to 22 June

General
  19 to 22 June 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 25
Average length of a sitting day 12 hrs 35 mins 11 hrs 28 mins
Longest sitting day 15 hrs 42 mins
(22 June)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 46 mins
(20 June)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 50 hrs 20 mins 286 hrs 42 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  19 to 22 June 2017 to date
government business 29 hrs 3 mins 130 hrs 43 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 9 hrs 19 mins
2 hrs 20 mins		 78 hrs 59 mins
18 hrs 38 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 11 mins 26 hrs 35 mins
urgency/MPI 1 hrs 55 min 17  hrs 14 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 11 mins 4 hrs 39 mins
other 3 hrs 20 mins 6 hrs 25 min
adjournment debate 2 hr 21 mins 22 hrs 7 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  19 to 22 June 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 2* 237**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 144
4 sitting days		 902
25 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36.0 36.1
Notices of motion given 56 309
Petitions presented 1 4
Signatories to petitions 3716 6086
Divisions 29 185

*  Questions placed on notice from 16 to 22 June 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 22 June 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  19 to 22 June 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 1
3		 5
15
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 20 87
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 1 2
Passed in the Senate 19 84
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 5 29
Bills referred to committees 10 53

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 30%, Government business 49%, Questions 10%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 2%

13 to 15 June 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 19 to 22 June - General business 19%, Government business 61%, Questions 9%, Urgent/MPI 4%, Other business 7%, Business of the Senate 0%

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