Senate Statistical Summary

General	26 to 29 March	2007 to date
Number of sitting days	4	15
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 31 mins	9 hrs 27 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 12 mins (27 March 2007)	12 hrs 28 mins (22 March 2007)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 38 mins (26 March 2007)	6 hrs 25 mins (23 March 2007)
Hours of sitting	38 hrs 03 mins	141 hrs 48 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	20 hrs 12 mins 7 hrs 10 mins 4 hrs 05 mins 2 hrs 05 mins 1 hr 13 mins 0 hrs 06 mins 3 hrs 12 mins	60 hrs 45 mins 36 hrs 35 mins 14 hrs 31 mins 8 hrs 45 mins 7 hrs 36 mins 1 hr 59 mins 11 hrs 37 mins







Questions placed on notice	25^	165*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	75 4 sitting days	272 14 sitting days
	75 4 sitting days	272 14 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	18.8	19.4
Petitions presented	5	36
Signatories to petitions	318	19 898
Divisions	22	68
^ Questions placed on notice from 26 March to 29 March 2007 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 8 December 2006 to 29 March 2007 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	2 3	2 10


Received from the House of Representatives	5	59
Passed in the Senate	16	64
Bills discharged from Notice Paper	0	1
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	1	25
Bills referred to committees	10	17

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