Senate Statistical Summary 11/2017


No. 11—11 to 14 September

General
  11 to 14 September 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 40
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 34 mins 10 hrs 56 mins
Longest sitting day 13 hrs 32 mins
(13 September)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 35 mins
(12 September)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 42 hrs 16 mins 437 hrs 9 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  11 to 14 September 2017 to date
government business 20 hrs 50 mins 186 hrs 41mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 11 hrs 44 mins
1 hrs 26 mins		 128 hrs 39 mins
29 hrs 02 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 18 mins 42 hrs 31 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 6 min 28 hrs 27 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 1 mins 7 hrs 23 mins
other 0 hrs 4 mins 9 hrs 10 mins
adjournment debate 2 hrs 13 mins 34 hrs 18 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  11 to 14 September 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 4* 322**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 135
4 sitting days		 1449
40 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 33.8 36.2
Notices of motion given 36 463
Petitions presented 1 13
Signatories to petitions 21074 86975
Divisions 39 286

*  Questions placed on notice from 8 to 14 September 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 14 September 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  11 to 14 September 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 4
4		 10
27
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 5 122
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 11 120
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 1 4
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 2 47
Bills referred to committees 8 80

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 32%, Government business 46%, Questions 11%, Urgency/MPI 7%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 2%

4 to 7 September 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 29%, Government business 52%, Questions 11%, Urgency/MPI 8%, Other business 0%, Business of the Senate 0%

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