Senate Statistical Summary

General	5 to 9 December	2005
Number of sitting days	5	57
Average length of a sitting day	10 hrs 22 mins	9 hrs 31 mins
Longest sitting day	12 hrs 41 mins (8 December 2005)	15 hrs 54 mins (23 June 2005)
Shortest sitting day	7 hrs 55 mins (9 December 2005)	3 hrs 10 mins (4 October 2005)
Hours of sitting	51 hrs 49 mins	542 hrs 40 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	34 hrs 02 mins 7 hrs 11 mins 3 hrs 15 mins — 2 hrs 24 mins 2 hrs 57 mins 2 hrs 00 mins	236 hrs 28 mins 132 hrs 03 mins 55 hrs 44 mins 19 hrs 59 mins 35 hrs 04 mins 27 hrs 49 mins 35 hrs 33 mins







Questions placed on notice	26^	1273*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	61 4 sitting days	1069 53 sitting days
	61 4 sitting days	1069 53 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	15.3	20.2
Petitions presented	11	86
Signatories to petitions	9 714	64 057
Divisions	53	217
^ Questions placed on notice from 5 December to 9 December 2005 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 10 December 2004 to 9 December 2005 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	4 1	27 8


Received from the House of Representatives	5	157
Passed in the Senate	19	167
Bills negatived	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	25
Bills referred to committees	5	65
Restored to Notice Paper government bills private senators' bills	0 0	1 2

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