Senate Statistical Summary

General	2 to 5 April	Autumn sittings
Number of sitting days	4	19
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 20 mins	8 hrs 22 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 13 mins (4 April 2001)	10 hrs 23 mins (7 March 2001)
Shortest sitting day	5 hrs 25 mins (3 April 2001)	5 hrs 25 mins (3 April 2001)
Hours of sitting	33 hrs 23 mins	159 hrs 16 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	17 hrs 14 mins 8 hrs 06 mins 4 hrs 11 mins 1 hr 02 mins 01 min 17 mins 2 hrs 32 mins	74 hrs 52 mins 39 hrs 41 mins 20 hrs 14 mins 7 hrs 21 mins 1 hr 34 mins 2 hrs 42 mins 12 hrs 52 mins







Questions placed on notice	15^	357**
Questions without notice* Question time held on:	86 4 sitting days	409 19 sitting days
Questions without notice* Question time held on:	86 4 sitting days	409 19 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	21.5	21.5
Petitions presented	6	47
Signatories to petitions	1 285	64 522
Divisions	4	21
* Includes supplementary questions ^ Questions placed on notice from 30 March to 5 April inclusive ** Questions placed on notice since the end of the summer sittings 2000
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	4 3	7 5


Received from the House of Representatives	8	39
Bill created by division of bill in the Senate	0	1
Passed in the Senate	13	41
Bills negatived	0	3
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	6	12
Bills referred to committees	8	19

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