Senate Statistical Summary

General	18 to 21 June	Budget/Winter sittings to date
Number of sitting days	4	9
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 31 mins	6 hrs 38 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hr 12 mins (20 June 2001)	10 hrs 12 mins (20 June 2001)
Shortest sitting day	5 hrs 17 mins (19 June 2001)	39 mins (9 May 2001)
Hours of sitting	34 hrs 05 mins	59 hrs 44 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	17 hrs 45 mins 9 hrs 02 mins 4 hrs 15 mins 1 hr 01 min — 07 mins 1 hr 55 mins	29 hrs 33 mins 16 hrs 31 mins 7 hrs 25 mins 1 hr 01 min 02 mins 1 hr 39 mins 3 hrs 33 mins







Questions placed on notice	53^	76**
Questions without notice* Question time held on:	88 4 sitting days	151 7 sitting days
Questions without notice* Question time held on:	88 4 sitting days	151 7 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	22	21.6
Petitions presented	7	14
Signatories to petitions	904	4 444
Divisions	1	6
* Includes supplementary questions ^ Questions placed on notice from 25 May to 21 June inclusive ** Questions placed on notice since the end of the autumn sittings 2001
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 5	1 5


Received from the House of Representatives	22	29
Passed in the Senate	22	32
Bills negatived	0	0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	4
Bills referred to committees	5	9

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