Senate Statistical Summary

General	10 to 12 May	2005 to date
Number of sitting days	3	14
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 42 mins	9 hrs 08 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 21 mins (11 May 2005)	10 hrs 21 mins (11 May 2005)
Shortest sitting day	6 hrs 35 mins (10 May 2005)	6 hrs 35 mins (10 May 2005)
Hours of sitting	26 hrs 06 mins	127 hrs 56 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	6 hrs 27 mins 8 hrs 47 mins 3 hrs 03 mins 1 hr 01 mins 1 hr 07 mins 3 hrs 50 mins 1 hr 51 mins	54 hrs 18 mins 32 hrs 35 mins 15 hrs 02 mins 5 hrs 11 mins 3 hrs 42 mins 4 hrs 04 mins 13 hrs 04 mins







Questions placed on notice	436^	740*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	61 3 sitting days	303 14 sitting days
	61 3 sitting days	303 14 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	20.3	21.6
Petitions presented	5	15
Signatories to petitions	934	1675
Divisions	9	22
^ Questions placed on notice from 18 March to 12 May 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 12 May 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 1	6 2


Received from the House of Representatives	10	58
Passed in the Senate	3	57
Bills negatived	0	0
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	1	5
Bills referred to committees	5	21

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