General statistics—2000
| |
Autumn |
Budget/Winter |
Spring |
Summer |
Total |
| Number of sitting days |
19 |
15 |
12 |
25 |
71 |
| 159 hrs 03 mins |
133 hrs 23 mins |
103 hrs 15 mins |
236 hrs 09 mins |
631 hrs 50 mins |
| Average length of a sitting day |
8 hrs 22 mins |
8 hrs 53 mins |
8 hrs 36 mins |
9 hrs 26 mins |
8 hrs 53 mins |
| Longest sitting day |
10 hrs 20 mins
(6 March 2000) |
15 hrs 18 mins
(29 June 2000) |
10 hrs 21 mins
(30 August 2000) |
19 hrs 45 mins
(7 December 2000) |
|
| Shortest sitting day |
4 hrs 41 mins
(7 March 2000) |
4 hrs 36 mins
(9 May 2000) |
5 hrs 25 mins
(15 August 2000) |
4 hrs 00 mins
( 10 October 2000) |
|
| Questions placed on notice |
314
(1/1 - 13/4) |
386
(14/4 - 30/6) |
351
(1/7 - 7/9) |
341
(8/9 - 31/12) |
1 392 |
| Questions without notice* |
430 |
336 |
287 |
520 |
1573 |
| Question time held on: |
19 sitting days |
15 sitting days |
12 sitting days |
23 sitting days |
69 sitting days |
| Average daily number of questions without notice* |
22.6 |
22.3 |
24 |
22.6 |
22.8 |
| Petitions presented |
57 |
45 |
22 |
26 |
150 |
| Signatories to petitions |
42 371 |
194 069 |
162 306 |
40 262 |
439 008 |
| Delegated legislation - Notices of motion for disallowance: |
| Given |
31 |
30 |
19 |
32 |
112 |
| Agreed to |
1 |
2 |
7 |
4 |
14 |
| Negatived |
3 |
0 |
8 |
6 |
18 |
| Withdrawn |
9 |
25 |
14 |
37 |
85 |
| Still before the Senate |
19 |
29 |
19 |
2 |
N/A |
| Statements by the President and the Chair of Committees |
3 |
12 |
4 |
4 |
23 |
| Ministerial statements |
3 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
| Matters of public importance |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Urgency motions |
3 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
| Principal motions agreed to |
41 |
19 |
24 |
30 |
113 |
| Condolence motions |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Censure motions |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Orders for the production of documents |
6 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
22 |
| Government responses to committee reports tabled |
7 |
8 |
6 |
13 |
35 |
| Divisions |
26 |
11 |
27 |
51 |
115 |
* Includes supplementary questions.