Senate Statistical Summary 1/2017


No. 1—7 to 9 February

General
  2017 to date
Number of sitting days 3
Average length of a sitting day 9 hrs 45 mins
Longest sitting day 10 hrs 09 mins
(8 February )
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 10 mins
(9 February)
Hours of sitting 29 hrs 14 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  2017 to date
government business 5 hrs 49 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 12 hrs 17 mins
2 hrs 21 mins
questions without notice 3 hrs 11 mins
urgency/MPI 2 hrs 3 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 44 mins
other 1 hrs 25 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 45 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 114*
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 102
3 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 34.0
Notices of motion given 48
Petitions presented 0
Signatories to petitions 0
Divisions 10

*  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 9 February 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 1
2
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 9
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0
Government bills restored to the Notice Paper 0
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 1
Passed in the Senate 9
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0
Bills referred to committees 5

Business conducted in the Senate

7 to 9 February 2017

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