Senate Statistical Summary 14/2017


No. 14—27 to 30 November

General
  27 to 30 November 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 52
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 46 mins 10 hrs 44 mins
Longest sitting day 12 hrs 35 mins
(28 November)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 2 mins
(30 November)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 43 hrs 5 mins 558 hrs 13 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  27 to 30 November 2017 to date
government business 3 hrs 40 mins 214 hrs 6 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 31 hrs 21 mins
23 hrs 14 mins		 184 hrs 23 mins
59 hrs 06 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 11 mins 55 hrs 9 mins
urgency/MPI 0 hrs 0 min 34 hrs 24 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 8 mins 13 hrs 39 mins
other 2 hrs 47 mins 14 hrs 34 mins
adjournment debate 0 hrs 58 mins 41 hrs 58 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  27 to 30 November 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 11* 407**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 134
4 sitting days		 1860
52 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 33.5 35.8
Notices of motion given 45 609
Petitions presented 0 16
Signatories to petitions 0 98206
Divisions 28 354

*  Questions placed on notice from 17 to 30 November 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 30 November 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  27 to 30 November 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
0		 13
32
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 0 154
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 2 136
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 5
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 57
Bills referred to committees 5 97

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 36%, Government business 41%, Questions 11%, Urgency/MPI 7%, Other business 3%, Business of the Senate 2%

13 to 16 November 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate from 27 to 30 November 2017 - General business 74%, Government business 9%, Questions 10%, Urgency/MPI 0%, Other business 7%, Business of the Senate 0%

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