Senate Statistical Summary

General	15 to 18 June	2009 to date
Number of sitting days	4	21
Average length of a sitting day	9 hrs 14 mins	9 hrs 35 mins
Longest sitting day	9 hrs 57 mins (16 June)	23 hrs 44 mins (19 and 20 March)
Shortest sitting day	8 hrs 06 mins (18 June)	0 hrs 45 mins (9 February)
Hours of sitting	36 hrs 56 mins	201 hrs 12 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	19 hrs 45 mins 9 hrs 29 mins 4 hrs 03 mins 1 hr 01 min 0 hrs 03 mins 0 hrs 4 mins 2 hrs 31 mins	120 hrs 45 mins 38 hrs 57 mins 17 hrs 52 mins 7 hrs 11 mins 3 hrs 42 mins 3 hrs 03 mins 9 hrs 42 mins







Questions placed on notice	315^	657*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	111 4 sitting days	492 17 sitting days
	111 4 sitting days	492 17 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	27.8	28.9
Petitions presented	4	21
Signatories to petitions	202	14 599
Divisions	14	78
^ Questions placed on notice from 15 May to 18 June 2009 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 18 June 2009 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 1	1 5


Received from the House of Representatives	44	100
Passed in the Senate	22	61
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper	4	16
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	20
Bills referred to committees	22	59

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