Overview of 318th Session of the Senate

Even though the 318th session of the Senate started on May 23 and was prorogued a month later on June 24, it only met for 17 sittings or 53% of the total session time.

Since a break of two days is also counted towards the meeting days, during the 318th session, the Senate met for a day or two and then went on a break for 2 days. In general, the Senate almost met for 3 days in a week while all 7 days of the week were counted towards its tally of meeting days. In the 32-day long session, the Senate sittings were held only on May 23, May 24, May 25, May 27, May 30, June 2, June 3, June 6, June 9, June 10, June 13, June 15, June 16, June 17, June 20, June 21 and June 23. The schedule of the sittings during the session is given in Appendix D.

The Session met for 49 hours and 1 minute with an average time of 2 hours and 53 minutes per sitting. The shortest sitting was held on Friday, June 10 when the whole agenda was disposed of and the House was adjourned after meeting for only 17 minutes. The longest sitting of the Senate was held on Tuesday, June 21 when the House was adjourned after meeting for 6 hours and 41 minutes.

The average delay in starting a sitting was 7 minutes during the session.