Senate Statistical Summary

General	25 to 28 June	Budget/Winter sittings
Number of sitting days	4	13
Average length of a sitting day	11 hrs 08 mins	8 hrs 01 min
Longest sitting day	16 hrs 22 mins (28 June 2001)	16 hrs 22 mins (28 June 2001)
Shortest sitting day	7 hrs 33 mins (26 June 2001)	39 mins (9 May 2001)
Hours of sitting	44 hrs 35 mins	104 hrs 19 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	29 hrs 56 mins 7 hrs 25 mins 4 rhs 22 mins — 21 mins 05 mins 2 hrs 26 mins	59 hrs 29 mins 23 hrs 56 mins 11 hrs 47 mins 1 hr 01 min 23 mins 1 hr 44 mins 5 hrs 59 mins







Questions placed on notice	27^	103**
Questions without notice* Question time held on:	92 4 sitting days	243 11 sitting days
Questions without notice* Question time held on:	92 4 sitting days	243 11 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	23	22.1
Petitions presented	7	21
Signatories to petitions	417	4 861
Divisions	10	16
* Includes supplementary questions ^ Questions placed on notice from 22 to 28 June inclusive ** Questions placed on notice since the end of the autumn sittings 2001
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	1 2	2 7


Received from the House of Representatives	17	46
Passed in the Senate	19	51
Bills negatived	0	0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	5	9
Bills referred to committees	2	11

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