Senate Statistical Summary

General	26 to 29 October	2009 to date
Number of sitting days	4	44
Average length of a sitting day	8 hrs 43 mins	9 hrs 16 mins
Longest sitting day	9 hrs 58 mins (28 October )	23 hrs 44 mins (19 and 20 March)
Shortest sitting day	7 hrs 39 mins (27 October )	0 hrs 45 mins (9 February)
Hours of sitting	34 hrs 51 mins	407 hrs 31 mins
Business conducted in the Senate government business general business questions without notice urgency/MPI business of the Senate other adjournment debate	9 hrs 01 min 12 hrs 54 mins 4 hrs 16 mins 2 hrs 57 mins 2 hrs 47 mins 0 hrs 28 mins 2 hrs 28 mins	202 hrs 45 mins 97 hrs 17 mins 42 hrs 54 mins 17 hrs 23 mins 18 hrs 12 mins 4 hrs 58 mins 24 hrs 02 mins







Questions placed on notice	31^	1223*
Questions without notice (including supplementary questions) Question time held on:	114 4 sitting days	1140 40 sitting days
	114 4 sitting days	1140 40 sitting days
Average daily number of questions without notice	28.5	28.5
Notices of motion given	43	385
Petitions presented	4	41
Signatories to petitions	9 363	94 295
Divisions	17	155
^ Questions placed on notice from 18 September to 29 October 2009 inclusive * Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2008 to 29 October 2009 inclusive
Legislation
Introduced in the Senate government bills private senators' bills	0 5	7 22


Received from the House of Representatives	12	157
Passed in the Senate	14	122
Bills negatived or discharged from Notice Paper	0	33
Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'	0	35
Bills referred to committees	6	96

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