Senate Statistical Summary

General	20 to 23 March	2007 to date
Number of sitting days	4	11
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 39 mins	9 hrs 26 mins
Longest sitting day	12 hrs 28 mins (22 March 2007)	12 hrs 28 mins (22 March 2007)
Shortest sitting day	6 hrs 25 mins (23 March 2007)	6 hrs 25 mins (23 March 2007)
Hours of sitting	38 hrs 36 mins	103 hrs 45 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	22 hrs 53 mins 6 hrs 48 mins 3 hrs 07 mins 2 hrs 08 mins 0 hrs 08 mins 0 hrs 33 mins 2 hrs 59 mins	40 hrs 33 mins 29 hrs 25 mins 10 hrs 26 mins 6 hrs 40 mins 6 hrs 23 mins 1 hr 53 mins 8 hrs 25 mins







Questions placed on notice	26^	140*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	61 3 sitting days	197 10 sitting days
	61 3 sitting days	197 10 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	20.3	19.7
Petitions presented	12	31
Signatories to petitions	13 338	19 580
Divisions	11	46
^ Questions placed on notice from 2 March to 23 March 2007 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 8 December 2006 to 23 March 2007 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 1	0 7


Received from the House of Representatives	7	54
Passed in the Senate	19	48
Bills discharged from Notice Paper	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	14	24
Bills referred to committees	1	7

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