Senate Statistical Summary

General	18 to 21 June	2007 to date
Number of sitting days	4	26
Average length of a sitting day	10 hrs 32 mins	9 hrs 33 mins
Longest sitting day	12 hrs 40 mins (21 June 2007)	12 hrs 53 mins (14 June 2007)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 59 mins (18 June 2007)	4 hrs 24 mins (8 May 2007)
Hours of sitting	42 hrs 09 mins	248 hrs 15 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	25 hrs 12 mins 6 hrs 57 mins 4 hrs 10 mins — 1 hr 45 mins 0 hrs 10 mins 3 hrs 55 mins	118 hrs 23 mins 58 hrs 05 mins 23 hrs 56 mins 9 hrs 48 mins 10 hrs 16 mins 7 hrs 49 mins 19 hrs 58 mins







Questions placed on notice	23^	464*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	81 4 sitting days	451 23 sitting days
	81 4 sitting days	451 23 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	20.3	19.6
Petitions presented	5	50
Signatories to petitions	12 701	33 240
Divisions	29	115
^ Questions placed on notice from 18 June to 21 June 2007 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 8 December 2006 to 21 June 2007 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	3 5	5 17


Received from the House of Representatives	10	114
Passed in the Senate	21	123
Bills discharged from Notice Paper	1	2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	1	30
Bills referred to committees	20	50

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