Senate Statistical Summary 12/2016


No. 12—28 November to 1 December

General
  28 November to 1 December 2016
Number of sitting days 4 42
Average length of a sitting day 12 hrs 40 mins 10 hrs 54 mins
Longest sitting day 15 hrs 03 mins
(1 December )		 28 hrs 56 mins
(17 March)
Shortest sitting day 10 hrs 24 mins
(30 November)		 3 hrs 33 mins
(30 August)
Hours of sitting 50 hrs 42 mins 457 hrs 40 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  28 November to 1 December 2016
government business 30 hrs 08 mins 192 hrs 36 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 12 hrs 02 mins
0 hrs 0 mins		 130 hrs 33 mins
20 hrs 38 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 16 mins 44 hrs 04 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 4 mins 30 hrs 44 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 43 mins 10 hrs 57 mins
other 0 hrs 05 mins 13 hrs 22 mins
adjournment debate 0 hrs 24 mins 35 hrs 24 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  28 November to 1 December 2016
Questions placed on notice 12 1004
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 144
4 sitting days		 1498
41 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36 36.5
Notices of motion given 56 574
Petitions presented 3 22
Signatories to petitions 620 133259
Divisions 55 295

  Questions placed on notice from 25 November to 1 December 2016 inclusive
  Questions placed on notice from 4 December 2015 to 1 December 2016 inclusive

Legislation
  28 November to 1 December 2016
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 0
1		 8
11
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 7 124
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 13 102
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 3
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 3 33
Bills referred to committees 5 72

Business conducted in the Senate

2016

Business conducted in the Senate - 2016

28 November to 1 December 2016

Business conducted in the Senate - 28 November to 1 December 2016

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