Senate Statistical Summary

General	9 to 12 February	2009 to date
Number of sitting days	4	7
Average length of a sitting day	7 hrs 05 mins	7 hrs 48 mins
Longest sitting day	10 hrs 21 mins (12 and 13 February)	10 hrs 21 mins (12 and 13 February)
Shortest sitting day	0 hrs 45 mins (9 February)	0 hrs 45 mins (9 February)
Hours of sitting	28 hrs 22 mins	54 hrs 35 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	23 hrs 32 mins 2 hrs 56 mins — — — 0 hrs 49 mins 1 hr 05 mins	39 hrs 33 mins 7 hrs 01 min 3 hrs 16 mins 1 hr 02 mins — 1 hr 31 mins 2 hrs 12 mins







Questions placed on notice	11^	132*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	0 0 sitting days	89 3 sitting days
	0 0 sitting days	89 3 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	0	29.7
Petitions presented	3	6
Signatories to petitions	8 421	12 086
Divisions	10	18
^ Questions placed on notice from 6 to 13 February 2009 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 13 February 2009 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 0	0 0


Received from the House of Representatives	14	24
Passed in the Senate	6	11
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper	6	9
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	6	12
Bills referred to committees	7	13

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