Senate Statistical Summary

General	29 March to 1 April	2004 to date
Number of sitting days	4	19
Average length of a sitting day	10 hrs 17 mins	9 hrs 17 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 28 mins (31 March 2004)	10 hrs 28 mins (31 March 2004)
Shortest sitting day	9 hrs 50 mins (29 March 2004)	7 hrs 39 mins (23 March 2004)
Hours of sitting	41 hrs 09 mins	176 hrs 15 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	22 hrs 39 mins 8 hrs 48 mins 4 hrs 11 mins 2 hrs 34 mins — 0 hrs 09 mins 2 hrs 48 mins	81 hrs 13 mins 45 hrs 44 mins 20 hrs 05 mins 8 hrs 45 mins 5 hrs 18 mins 0 hrs 32 mins 14 hrs 38 mins







Questions placed on notice	59^	364*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	83 4 sitting days	422 19 sitting days
	83 4 sitting days	422 19 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	20.8	22.2
Petitions presented	4	40
Signatories to petitions	4 747	25 891
Divisions	8	39
^ Questions placed on notice from 26 March to 1 April 2004 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2003 to 1 April 2004 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 0	0 4


Received from the House of Representatives	8	58
Passed in the Senate	25	58
Bills negatived	1	5
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	2	20
Bills referred to committees	5	22

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