Senate Statistical Summary 15/2017


No. 15—4 to 7 December

General
  4 to 7 December 2017
Number of sitting days 4 56
Average length of a sitting day 10 hrs 19 mins 10 hrs 42 mins
Longest sitting day 11 hrs 08 mins
(4 December)		 24 hrs 11 mins
(30 and 31 March)
Shortest sitting day 9 hrs 14 mins
(5 December)		 6 hrs 43 mins
(9 May)
Hours of sitting 41 hrs 16 mins 599 hrs 29 mins
Business conducted in the Senate
  4 to 7 December 2017
government business 20 hrs 01 min 234 hrs 7 mins
general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
 19 hrs 09 mins
            nil		 194 hrs 32 mins
59 hrs 06 mins
questions without notice 4 hrs 19 mins 59 hrs 28 mins
urgency/MPI nil 34 hrs 24 mins
business of the Senate 1 hr 55 mins 15 hrs 34 mins
other 1 hr 36 mins 16 hrs 10 mins
adjournment debate 3 hrs 16 mins 45 hrs 14 mins
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
  4 to 7 December 2017
Questions placed on notice 3* 410**
Questions without notice (including supplementaries)
  • Question time held on:
 145
4 sitting days		 2005
56 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice 36.3 35.8
Notices of motion given 66 675
Petitions presented 1 17
Signatories to petitions 8133 106 339
Divisions 30 384

*  Questions placed on notice from 1 to 7 December 2017 inclusive
**  Questions placed on notice from 2 December 2016 to 7 December 2017 inclusive

Legislation
  4 to 7 December 2017
Introduced in the Senate
  • government bills
  • private senators' bills
 18
0		 31
32
Received from the House of Representatives - government bills 3 157
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 5 141
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper 0 5
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' 0 57
Bills referred to committees 8 105

Business conducted in the Senate

2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the senate during 2017 - General business 35%, Government business 42%, Questions 11%, Urgency/MPI 6%, Other business 3%, Business of the Senate 3%

4 to 7 December 2017

Pie graph of business conducted in the Senate from 4 to 7 December 2017 - General business 27%, Government business 53%, Questions 11%, Urgency/MPI 0%, Other business 4%, Business of the Senate 5%

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