Senate Statistical Summary 11/2016


No. 11—21 to 24 November

General
  21 to 24 November 2016 to date
Number of sitting days 4 38
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 48 mins 10 hrs 43 mins
Longest sitting day 15 hrs 14 mins
(21 November)		 28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 45 mins
(22 November)		 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)
Hours of sitting 43 hrs 11 mins 406 hrs 58 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  21 to 24 November 2016 to date
government business 19 hrs 4 mins 162 hrs 28 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 10 hrs 58 mins
2 hrs 21 mins		 118 hrs 31 mins
20 hrs 38 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 14 mins 39 hrs 48 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 7 mins 27 hrs 40 mins
business of the Senate 3 hrs 1 mins 10 hrs 14 mins
other 0 hrs 7 mins 13 hrs 17 mins
adjournment debate 2 hrs 40 mins 35 hrs 0 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  21 to 24 November 2016 to date
Questions placed on notice 20 992
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 135
4 sitting days		 1354
37 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 33.8 36.6
Notices of motion given 26 518
Petitions presented 2 19
Signatories to petitions 1686 132639
Divisions 34 240

  Questions placed on notice from 11 to 24 November 2016 inclusive
  Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 24 November 2016 inclusive

Legislation
  21 to 24 November 2016 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
0		 8
10
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 11 117
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Government bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 18
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 91
Passed in the Senate 10 89
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 3
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 3 30
Bills referred to committees 1 67

Business conducted in the Senate

2016

Pie chart showing business conducted in the Senate during 2016

21 to 24 November 2016

Pie chart showing business conducted in the Senate from 21 to 24 November 2016

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