Senate Statistical Summary

General	11 to 15 November	2002 to date
Number of sitting days	5	50
Average length of a sitting day	10 hrs 15 mins	8 hrs 37 mins
Longest sitting day	12 hrs 46 mins (11 November 2002)	17 hrs 50 mins (27 June 2002)
Shortest sitting day	5 hrs 47 mins (15 November 2002)	0 hrs 02 mins (24 October 2002)
Hours of sitting	51 hrs 15 mins	430 hrs 51 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	35 hrs 29 mins 6 hrs 31 mins 4 hrs 13 mins 0 hrs 0 mins 1 hr 53 mins 0 hrs 12 mins 2 hrs 57 mins	220 hrs 16 mins 93 hrs 13 mins 46 hrs 17 mins 10 hrs 02 mins 17 hrs 23 mins 17 hrs 15 mins 26 hrs 25 mins







Questions placed on notice	103^	930
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	93 4 sitting days	1006 44 sitting days
	93 4 sitting days	1006 44 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	23.3	22.9
Petitions presented	11	85
Signatories to petitions	12 061	39 952
Divisions	9	90
^ Questions placed on notice from 25 October to 15 November inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 0	10 12


Received from the House of Representatives	15	149
Passed in the Senate	15	124
Bills negatived	0	3
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	9	43
Bills referred to committees	1	54
Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper	3	21
Bill created by division of bill in the Senate	1	1

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