Senate Statistical Summary

General	16 to 19 June	2003 to date
Number of sitting days	4	21
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 49 mins	9 hrs 08 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 04 mins (18 June 2003)	12 hrs 52 mins (19 March 2003)
Shortest sitting day	7 hrs 13 mins (17 June 2003)	5 hrs 05 mins (13 May 2003)
Hours of sitting	35 hrs 16 mins	191 hrs 56 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	17 hrs 19 mins 8 hrs 11 mins 4 hrs 16 mins 1 hr 03 mins 1 hr 21 mins 0 hrs 31 mins 2 hrs 35 mins	96 hrs 16 mins 51 hrs 32 mins 20 hrs 08 mins 2 hrs 03 mins 2 hrs 57 mins 3 hrs 20 mins 15 hrs 40 mins







Questions placed on notice	90^	525*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	87 4 sitting days	439 19 sitting days
	87 4 sitting days	439 19 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	21.8	23.1
Petitions presented	5	29
Signatories to petitions	6 508	26 750
Divisions	10	43
^ Questions placed on notice from 16 May to 19 June 2003 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 13 December 2002 to 19 June 2003 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 1	3 6


Received from the House of Representatives	18	67
Passed in the Senate	7	49
Bills negatived, discharged from Notice Paper or laid aside	1	6
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	15
Bills referred to committees	4	31

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