Senate Statistical Summary 12/2017


No. 12—16 to 19 October

General
  16 to 19 October 2017 to date
Number of sitting days 4 44
Average length of a sitting day 9 hrs 44 mins 10 hrs 49 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 23 mins
(16 October)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 8 hrs 15 mins
(19 October)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 38 hrs 58 mins 476 hrs 7 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  16 to 19 October 2017 to date
government business 13 hrs 28 mins 200 hrs 9 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 11 hrs 14 mins
2 hrs 20 mins		 139 hrs 53 mins
31 hrs 22 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 15 mins 46 hrs 46 mins
urgency/MPI 2 hrs 58 min 31 hrs 25 mins
business of the Senate 3 hrs 8 mins 10 hrs 31 mins
other 0 hrs 41 mins 9 hrs 51 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 14 mins 37 hrs 32 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  16 to 19 October 2017 to date
Questions placed on notice 11* 333**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 137
4 sitting days		 1586
44 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 34.5 36.1
Notices of motion given 44 507
Petitions presented 1 14
Signatories to petitions 10086 97061
Divisions 26 312

*  Questions placed on notice from 15 September to 19 October 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 19 October 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  16 to 19 October 2017 to date
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 3
1		 13
28
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 17 139
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 10 130
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 1 5
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 10 57
Bills referred to committees 4 84

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%

16 to 19 October 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 31%, Government business 38%, Questions 12%, Urgency/MPI 8%, Other business 2%, Business of the Senate 9%

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