Senate Statistical Summary 8/2016


No. 8—12 to 15 September

General
  12 to 15 September 2016 to date
Number of sitting days 4 26
Average length of a sitting day 11 hrs 17 mins 10 hrs 56 mins
Longest sitting day 14 hrs 09 mins
(15 September)		 28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 24 mins
(13 September)		 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)
Hours of sitting 45 hrs 08 mins  284 hrs 19 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  12 to 15 September 2016 to date
Government business 19 hrs 19 mins 117 hrs 12 mins
General business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
9 hrs 54 mins
    2 hrs 21 mins		 73 hrs 50 mins
            11 hrs 47 mins
Questions without notice 4 hrs 21 mins 26 hrs 28 mins
Urgency/MPI 3 hrs 0 mins 18 hrs 28 mins
Business of the Senate 1 hr 23 mins 4 hrs 22 mins
Other 3 hrs 41 mins 9 hrs 19 mins
Adjournment debate 3 hrs 30 mins 24 hrs 46 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  12 to 15 September 2016 to date
Questions placed on notice 11 868
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)
  • Question time held on:
 148
            4 sitting days		 914
25 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 37 36.6
Notices of motion given 44 415
Petitions presented 1 15
Signatories to petitions 571 130917
Divisions 27 179

  Questions placed on notice from 2 to 15 September 2016 inclusive
  Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 15 September 2016 inclusive

Legislation
  12 to 15 September 2016 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 4
            3		 5
            9
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 9 76
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 14 91
Passed in the Senate 7 61
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 10 26
Bills referred to committees 11 41

Business conducted in the Senate

2016

A pie graph showing the percentage of business conducted in the senate for 2016: Government business 45%; General business 32%; Questions 10%; Urgency/MPI 7%; Business of the Senate 2%; Other business 4%.

12 to 15 September 2016

A pie graph showing the percentage of business conducted in the senate for 12 to 15 September 2016: Government business 46%; General business 24%; Questions 11%; Urgency/MPI 7%; Business of the Senate 2%; Other business 9%.

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