Senate Statistical Summary 8/2017


No. 8—8 to 10 August

General
  8 to 10 August 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 3 28
Average length of a sitting day 9 hrs 17 mins 11 hrs 14 mins
Longest sitting day 10 hrs 5 mins
(9 August)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 34 mins
(10 August)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 27 hrs 50 mins 314 hrs 32 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  8 to 10 August 2017 to date
government business 7 hrs 0 mins 137 hrs 43 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 10 hrs 18 mins
3 hrs 36 mins		 89 hrs 17 mins
22 hrs 14 mins
questions without notice 3 hrs 10 mins 29 hrs 45 mins
urgency/MPI 2 hrs 2 min 19  hrs 16 mins
business of the Senate 1 hrs 49 mins 6 hrs 28 mins
other 0 hrs 54 mins 7 hrs 19 min
adjournment debate 2 hr 37 mins 24 hrs 44 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  8 to 10 August 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 35* 272**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 101
3 sitting days		 1003
28 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 33.7 35.8
Notices of motion given 29 338
Petitions presented 4 8
Signatories to petitions 57510 63596
Divisions 21 206

*  Questions placed on notice from 23 June to 10 August 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 10 August 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  8 to 10 August 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
2		 5
17
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 8 95
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 2
Passed in the Senate 9 93
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 29
Bills referred to committees 3 56

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 31%, Government business 47%, Questions 10%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 3%, Business of the Senate 2%

8 to 10 August 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 8 to 10 August - General business 41%, Government business 28%, Questions 12%, Urgent/MPI 8%, Other business 4%, Business of the Senate 7%

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