Senate Statistical Summary

General	18 and 19 November	2002 to date
Number of sitting days	2	52
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 25 mins	8 hrs 39 mins
Longest sitting day	9 hrs 52 mins (19 November 2002)	17 hrs 50 mins (27 June 2002)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 59 mins (18 November 2002)	0 hrs 02 mins (24 October 2002)
Hours of sitting	18 hrs 51 mins	449 hrs 42 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	11 hrs 16 mins 3 hrs 05 mins 2 hrs 10 mins 0 hrs 0 mins 1 hr 53 mins 0 hrs 4 mins 2 hrs 16 mins	231 hrs 32 mins 96 hrs 18 mins 48 hrs 27 mins 10 hrs 02 mins 17 hrs 23 mins 17 hrs 19 mins 28 hrs 41 mins







Questions placed on notice	22^	952
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	45 2 sitting days	1051 46 sitting days
	45 2 sitting days	1051 46 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	22.5	22.8
Petitions presented	0	85
Signatories to petitions	0	39 952
Divisions	3	93
^ Questions placed on notice 18 and 19 November
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 1	10 13


Received from the House of Representatives	0	149
Passed in the Senate	7	131
Bills negatived	1	4
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	43
Bills referred to committees	0	54
Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper	0	21
Bill created by division of bill in the Senate	0	1

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