Senate Statistical Summary

General	10 to 13 October	2005 to date
Number of sitting days	4	42
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 44 mins	9 hrs 27 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 59 mins (13 October 2005)	15 hrs 54 mins (23 June 2005)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 55 mins (10 October 2005)	3 hrs 10 mins (4 October 2005)
Hours of sitting	38 hrs 58 mins	396 hrs 38 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	10 hrs 58 mins 9 hrs 32 mins 4 hrs 18 mins 3 hrs 04 mins 8 hrs 34 mins 0 hrs 05 mins 2 hrs 27 mins	149 hrs 13 mins 104 hrs 53 mins 43 hrs 59 mins 17 hrs 58 mins 26 hrs 44 mins 24 hrs 40 mins 29 hrs 11 mins







Questions placed on notice	10^	1133*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	76 4 sitting days	860 41 sitting days
	76 4 sitting days	860 41 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	19	21
Petitions presented	4	59
Signatories to petitions	998	37 085
Divisions	23	123
^ Questions placed on notice from 7 October to 13 October 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 13 October 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	2 0	21 7


Received from the House of Representatives	6	135
Passed in the Senate	11	136
Bills negatived	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	7	25
Bills referred to committees	4	52
Restored to Notice Paper government bills private senators' bills	0 0	1 1

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