Senate Statistical Summary 10/2017


No. 10—4 to 7 September

General
  4 to 7 September 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 36
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 3 mins 10 hrs 58 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 15 mins
(4 September)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 45 mins
(7 September)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 40 hrs 12 mins 394 hrs 53 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  4 to 7 September 2017 to date
government business 14 hrs 14 mins 165 hrs 51mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 13 hrs 45 mins
2 hrs 21 mins		 116 hrs 55 mins
27 hrs 36 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 16 mins 38 hrs 13 mins
urgency/MPI 3 hrs 1 min 25 hrs 21 mins
business of the Senate 0 hrs 33 mins 7 hrs 22 mins
other 0 hrs 26 mins 9 hrs 6 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 57 mins 32 hrs 5 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  4 to 7 September 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 41* 318**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 160
4 sitting days		 1314
36 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 40 36.5
Notices of motion given 51 427
Petitions presented 2 12
Signatories to petitions 2248 65901
Divisions 22 247

*  Questions placed on notice from 18 August to 7 September 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 7 September 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  4 to 7 September 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 1
4		 6
23
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 13 117
Received from the House of Representatives - private members' bills 0 0
Private senators' bills restored to the Notice Paper 0 2
Passed in the Senate 6 109
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 1 3
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 16 45
Bills referred to committees 1 72

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 32%, Government business 46%, Questions 11%, Urgency/MPI 7%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 2%

4 to 7 September 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 38%, Government business 39%, Questions 12%, Urgency/MPI 8%, Other business 1%, Business of the Senate 2%

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