Senate Statistical Summary

General	12 to 15 September	2005 to date
Number of sitting days	4	35
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 52 mins	9 hrs 33 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 07 mins (13 September 2005)	15 hrs 54 mins (23 June 2005)
Shortest sitting day	9 hrs 37 mins (15 September 2005)	6 hrs 35 mins (10 May 2005)
Hours of sitting	39 hrs 26 mins	334 hrs 07 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	17 hrs 23 mins 12 hrs 51 mins 4 hrs 12 mins 1 hr 56 mins 0 hrs 13 mins 0 hrs 50 mins 2 hrs 01 min	133 hrs 10 mins 87 hrs 59 mins 37 hrs 33 mins 12 hrs 53 mins 14 hrs 15 mins 22 hrs 51 mins 25 hrs 26 mins







Questions placed on notice	69^	1058*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	84 4 sitting days	746 35 sitting days
	84 4 sitting days	746 35 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	21	21.3
Petitions presented	5	51
Signatories to petitions	1 263	33 728
Divisions	24	92
^ Questions placed on notice from 9 September to 15 September 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 15 September 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	1 0	19 7


Received from the House of Representatives	7	129
Passed in the Senate	6	123
Bills negatived	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	3	18
Bills referred to committees	1	44
Restored to Notice Paper government bills private senators' bills	0 0	1 1

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