Senate Statistical Summary 10/2016


No. 10—7 to 10 November

General
  7 to 10 November 2016 to date
Number of sitting days 4 34
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 8 mins 10 hrs 42 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 18 mins
(7 November)		 28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 13 mins
(8 November)		 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)
Hours of sitting 40 hrs 34 mins 363 hrs 47 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  7 to 10 November 2016 to date
government business 14 hrs 19 mins 143 hrs 24 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 11 hrs 4 mins
4 hrs 10 mins		 107 hrs 33 mins
18 hrs 17 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 52 mins 35 hrs 34 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 4 mins 24 hrs 33 mins
business of the Senate 2 hrs 36 mins 7 hrs 13 mins
other 0 hrs 58 mins 13 hrs 10 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 41 mins 32 hrs 20 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  7 to 10 November 2016 to date
Questions placed on notice 35 972
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 152
4 sitting days		 1219
33 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 37.3 36.8
Notices of motion given 29 492
Petitions presented 0 17
Signatories to petitions 0 130953
Divisions 11 206

  Questions placed on notice from 14 October to 10 November 2016 inclusive
  Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 10 November 2016 inclusive

Legislation
  7 to 10 November 2016 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 1
0		 8
10
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 23 106
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Government bills restored to the Notice 0 18
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice 0 91
Passed in the Senate 11 79
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice 1 3
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 27
Bills referred to committees 13 66

Business conducted in the Senate

2016

Pie chart showing business conducted in the Senate during 2016

7 to 10 November 2016

Pie chart showing business conducted in the Senate from 7 to 10 November 2016

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