Senate Statistical Summary

General	24 to 27 June	2002 to date
Number of sitting days	4	21
Average length of a sitting day	11 hrs 57 mins	9 hrs 25 mins
Longest sitting day	17 hrs 50 mins (27 June 2002)	17 hrs 50 mins (27 June 2002)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 08 mins (25 June 2002)	1 hr 13 mins (17 June 2002)
Hours of sitting	47 hrs 49 mins	197 hrs 40 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	28 hrs 55 mins 6 hrs 06 mins 4 hrs 06 mins 0 mins 1 hr 27 mins 4 hrs 49 mins 2 hrs 26 mins	100 hrs 29 mins 43 hrs 46 mins 19 hrs 59 mins 1 hr 46 mins 9 hrs 00 mins 11 hrs 58 mins 10 hrs 42 mins







Questions placed on notice	18^	409
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	85 4 sitting days	433 19 sitting days
	85 4 sitting days	433 19 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	21.3	22.8
Petitions presented	1	29
Signatories to petitions	348	10 151
Divisions	9	39
^ Questions placed on notice from 21 to 27 June inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 0	8 6


Received from the House of Representatives	9	79
Passed in the Senate	30	70
Bills negatived	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	3	17
Bills referred to committees	4	34
Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper	0	18

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