Senate Statistical Summary

General	20 to 23 June	2005 to date
Number of sitting days	4	21
Average length of a sitting day	11 hrs 47 mins	9 hrs 45 mins
Longest sitting day	15 hrs 54 mins (23 June 2005)	15 hrs 54 mins (23 June 2005)
Shortest sitting day	10 hrs 10 mins (20 June 2005)	6 hrs 35 mins (10 May 2005)
Hours of sitting	47 hrs 08 mins	204 hrs 43 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	20 hrs 36 mins 7 hrs 01 min 4 hrs 13 mins — 2 hrs 32 mins 10 hrs 37 mins 2 hrs 09 mins	91 hrs 27 mins 45 hrs 49 mins 22 hrs 25 mins 5 hrs 11 mins 7 hrs 46 mins 15 hrs 08 mins 16 hrs 57 mins







Questions placed on notice	11^	810*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	81 4 sitting days	452 21 sitting days
	81 4 sitting days	452 21 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	20.3	21.5
Petitions presented	5	25
Signatories to petitions	1560	3642
Divisions	14	43
^ Questions placed on notice from 17 June to 23 June 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 23 June 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	7 3	14 7


Received from the House of Representatives	9	95
Passed in the Senate	23	104
Bills negatived	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	2	7
Bills referred to committees	1	32

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