Business conducted in the Senate - 22 to 26 November
Business conducted in the Senate - 2010
General
| |
22 to 26 November |
2010 |
| Number of sitting days |
5 |
40 |
| Average length of a sitting day |
9 hrs 28 mins |
8 hrs 58 mins |
| Longest sitting day |
12 hrs 00 mins
(25 November) |
12 hrs 00 mins
(25 November) |
| Shortest sitting day |
6 hrs 44 mins
(26 November) |
3 hrs 04 mins
(28 September) |
| Hours of sitting |
47 hrs 20 mins |
358 hrs 44 mins |
Business conducted in the Senate
| |
22 to 26 November |
2010 |
| Government business |
29 hrs 45 mins |
144 hrs 19 mins |
| General business |
5 hrs 56 mins |
107 hrs 22 mins |
| Questions without notice |
4 hrs 13 mins |
39 hrs 10 mins |
| Urgency/MPI |
2 hrs 55 mins |
23 hrs 29 mins |
| Business of the Senate |
0 hrs 35 mins |
9 hrs 39 mins |
| Other |
0 hrs 23 mins |
5 hrs 22 mins |
| Adjournment debate |
3 hrs 33 mins |
29 hrs 23 mins |
Questions, notices of motion, petitions, divisions
| |
22 to 26 November |
2010 |
| Questions placed on notice |
8^ |
718* |
| Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) |
114 |
1052 |
| Question time held on: |
4 sitting days |
37 sitting days |
| Average daily number of questions without notice |
28.5 |
28.4 |
| Notices of motion given |
57 |
440 |
| Petitions presented |
1 |
27 |
| Signatories to petitions |
105 |
38 297 |
| Divisions |
36 |
152 |
^ Questions placed on notice from 19 November to 26 November 2010 inclusive
* Questions placed on notice from 3 December 2009 to 26 November 2010 inclusive
Legislation
| |
22 to 26 November |
2010 |
| Introduced in the Senate |
| government bills |
2 |
11 |
| private senators' bills |
6 |
61 |
| Received from the House of Representatives |
14 |
173 |
| Passed in the Senate |
12 |
156 |
| Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper |
0 |
4 |
| Bills exempted from the 'cut-off' |
10 |
38 |
| Bills referred to committees |
3 |
109 |
| Bills restored to the Notice Paper |
0 |
4 |