Senate Statistical Summary

General	9 to 12 December	2002
Number of sitting days	4	60
Average length of a sitting day	12 hrs 37 mins	8 hrs 59 mins
Longest sitting day	22 hrs 54 mins (12 December 2002)	22 hrs 55 mins (12 December 2002)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 10 mins (10 December 2002)	0 hrs 02 mins (24 October 2002)
Hours of sitting	50 hrs 28 mins	539 hrs 07 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	33 hrs 24 mins 7 hrs 32 mins 4 hrs 13 mins — 2 hrs 19 mins 1 hr 06 mins 1 hr 54 mins	288 hrs 54 mins 110 hrs 18 mins 56 hrs 50 mins 11 hrs 02 mins 19 hrs 42 mins 19 hrs 34 mins 32 hrs 47 mins







Questions placed on notice	26^	1023
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	92 4 sitting days	1236 54 sitting days
	92 4 sitting days	1236 54 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	23.0	22.9
Petitions presented	11	99
Signatories to petitions	5392	45 659
Divisions	14	119
^ Questions placed on notice from 6 to 12 December inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	1 1	12 15


Received from the House of Representatives	13	168
Passed in the Senate	18	156
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper	3	7
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	12	63
Bills referred to committees	2	56
Private senators' bills restored to Notice Paper	1	22
Bill created by division of bill in the Senate	0	1

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