Senate Statistical Summary

General		Summer sittings
Number of sitting days		3
Average length of a sitting day		8 hrs 6 mins
Longest sitting day		10 hrs 57 mins (14 February 2002)
Shortest sitting day		3 hrs 24 mins (12 February 2002)
Hours of sitting		24 hrs 19 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate		6 hrs 29 mins 7 hrs 08 mins 2 hrs 01 min 48 mins 1 hr 20 mins 5 hrs 03 mins 1 hr 30 mins







Questions placed on notice		106
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:		49 2 sitting days
		49 2 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice		24.5
Petitions presented		8
Signatories to petitions		3087
Divisions		4
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills		3 0


Received from the House of Representatives		0
Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper		14
Passed in the Senate		0
Bills negatived		0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'		1
Bills referred to committees		2

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