Senate Statistical Summary 9/2017


No. 9—14 to 17 August

General
  14 to 17 August 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 32
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 2 mins 11 hrs 5 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 18 mins
(14 August)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 8 mins
(15 August)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 40 hrs 9 mins 354 hrs 41 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  14 to 17 August 2017 to date
government business 13 hrs 54 mins 151 hrs 37 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 13 hrs 53 mins
3 hrs 1 mins		 103 hrs 10 mins
25 hrs 15 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 12 mins 33 hrs 57 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 4 min 22  hrs 20 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 21 mins 6 hrs 49 mins
other 1 hrs 21 mins 8 hrs 40 min
adjournment debate 3 hr 24 mins 28 hrs 8 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  14 to 17 August 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 5* 277**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 151
4 sitting days		 1154
32 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 37.8 36.1
Notices of motion given 38 376
Petitions presented 2 10
Signatories to petitions 57 63653
Divisions 19 225

*  Questions placed on notice from 11 August to 17 August 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 17 August 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  14 to 17 August 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
2		 5
19
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 9 104
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 10 103
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 1 2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 29
Bills referred to committees 15 71

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 32%, Government business 46%, Questions 10%, Urgent/MPI 7%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 2%

14 to 17 August 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate 14 to 17 August - General business 38%, Government business 38%, Questions 11%, Urgent/MPI 8%, Other business 4%, Business of the Senate 1%

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