Senate Statistical Summary

General	3 to 10 November	2005 to date
Number of sitting days	5	47
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 38 mins	9 hrs 21 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 18 mins (9 November 2005)	15 hrs 54 mins (23 June 2005)
Shortest sitting day	4 hrs 31 mins (3 November 2005)	3 hrs 10 mins (4 October 2005)
Hours of sitting	43 hrs 09 mins	439 hrs 47 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	20 hrs 20 mins 10 hrs 36 mins 4 hrs 15 mins 1 hr 01 min 4 hrs 46 mins 0 hrs 06 mins 2 hrs 05 mins	169 hrs 33 mins 115 hrs 29 mins 48 hrs 14 mins 18 hrs 59 mins 31 hrs 30 mins 24 hrs 46 mins 31 hrs 16 mins







Questions placed on notice	50^	1183*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	75 4 sitting days	935 45 sitting days
	75 4 sitting days	935 45 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	18.8	20.8
Petitions presented	10	69
Signatories to petitions	5138	42 223
Divisions	18	141
^ Questions placed on notice from 14 October to 10 November 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 10 November 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 0	21 7


Received from the House of Representatives	11	146
Passed in the Senate	11	147
Bills negatived	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	25
Bills referred to committees	6	58
Restored to Notice Paper government bills private senators' bills	0 1	1 2

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