Senate Statistical Summary

General	7 to 10 March	2005 to date
Number of sitting days	4	7
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 03 mins	9 hrs 03 mins
Longest sitting day	9 hrs 53 mins (9 March 2005)	10 hrs 13 mins (9 February 2005)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 38 mins (8 March 2005)	8 hrs 02 mins (8 February 2005)
Hours of sitting	36 hrs 14 mins	63 hrs 24 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	16 hrs 26 mins 9 hrs 14 mins 4 hrs 14 mins 1 hr 01 mins 1 hr 24 mins 0 hrs 06 mins 3 hrs 49 mins	27 hrs 59 mins 16 hrs 32 mins 7 hrs 38 mins 3 hrs 07 mins 1 hr 24 mins 0 hrs 10 mins 6 hrs 34 mins







Questions placed on notice	111^	279*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	92 4 sitting days	154 7 sitting days
	92 4 sitting days	154 7 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	22.3	22
Petitions presented	1	3
Signatories to petitions	15	647
Divisions	3	6
^ Questions placed on notice from 11 February to 10 March 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 10 March 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 1	0 1


Received from the House of Representatives	33	46
Passed in the Senate	14	35
Bills negatived	0	0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	2
Bills referred to committees	4	8

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