Senate Statistical Summary 6/2016

No. 6—2 to 4 May

General	2 to 4 May	2016 to date
Number of sitting days	3	19
Average length of a sitting day	10 hrs 08 mins	11 hrs 21 mins
Longest sitting day	11 hrs 26 mins (2 May)	28 hrs 56 mins (17 March)
Shortest sitting day	07 hrs 48 mins (3 May)	07 hrs 48 mins (3 May)
Hours of sitting	30 hrs 23 mins	215 hrs 48 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business including time spent on private senators' bills questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	12 hrs 37 mins 07 hrs 36 mins 00 hrs 00 mins 03 hrs 13 mins 03 hrs 03 mins 00 hrs 33 mins 00 hrs 39 mins 02 hrs 42 mins	89 hrs 59 mins 67 hrs 03 mins 09 hrs 26 mins 19 hrs 57 mins 14 hrs 25 mins 02 hrs 30 mins 02 hrs 41 mins 19 hrs 13 mins
Questions placed on notice	0*	758**
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	102 3 sitting days	689 19 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	34.0	36.3
Notices of motion given	26	297
Petitions presented	3	13
Signatories to petitions	496	115 274
Divisions	19	148

* Questions placed on notice from 20 April to 4 May 2016, inclusive
** Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 4 May 2016, inclusive
Note: these figures include unanswered questions resubmitted from the last session

Legislation	2 to 4 May	2016 to date
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 0	1 5
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills	8	67
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills	0	0
Passed in the Senate	18	54
Bills negatived	0	2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	4	16
Bills referred to committees	0	22
Government bills restored	16	18
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper	1	60

2016

Business conducted in the Senate 2016

2016 - 2 to 4 May 2016

Business conducted in the Senate during the period 2 - 4 May 2016

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

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