Senate Statistical Summary

General	7 to 9 August	2007 to date
Number of sitting days	3	29
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 34 mins	9 hrs 27 mins
Longest sitting day	9 hrs 29 mins (9 August 2007)	12 hrs 53 mins (14 June 2007)
Shortest sitting day	7 hrs 10 mins (7 August 2007)	4 hrs 24 mins (8 May 2007)
Hours of sitting	25 hrs 41 mins	273 hrs 56 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	7 hrs 27 mins 9 hrs 20 mins 3 hrs 07 mins 1 hr 02 mins 3 hrs 11 mins 0 hrs 28 mins 1 hr 06 mins	125 hrs 50 mins 67 hrs 25 mins 27 hrs 03 mins 10 hrs 50 mins 13 hrs 27 mins 8 hrs 17 mins 21 hrs 04 mins







Questions placed on notice	42^	506*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	59 3 sitting days	510 26 sitting days
	59 3 sitting days	510 26 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	19.7	19.6
Petitions presented	8	58
Signatories to petitions	1 001	34 241
Divisions	14	129
^ 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	0 1	5 18


Received from the House of Representatives	13	127
Passed in the Senate	8	131
Bills discharged from Notice Paper	0	2
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	6	36
Bills referred to committees	7	57

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