Assembly and Executive Review Committee: 2022 - 2027 Mandate
2025 Research Papers
Below you will find details of Research Publications which have been prepared by the Assembly's Research and Information Service (RaISe) for the Assembly and Executive Review Committee in 2025.
Cross-cutting scrutiny in other legislatures
- Date: 11/06/2025
This briefing paper has been prepared following a request from the Assembly & Executive Committee (AERC). The committee asked for comparative research on the arrangements for cross-cutting scrutiny in other applicable legislatures. The research looked at arrangements in the following legislatures: House of Lords; House of Commons; Scottish Parliament; Houses of the Oireachtas; and Senedd
Scrutiny of Westminster Statutory Instruments in devolved areas
- Date: 11/06/2025
This briefing paper has been prepared following a request from the Assembly & Executive Review Committee (AERC). The committee asked for information on the arrangements for the scrutiny of applicable Statutory Instruments (SIs) in the Scottish Parliament and Senedd (Welsh Parliament). In the context of this research, applicable Statutory Instruments refers to subordinate/delegated legislation conceived and passed in Westminster that impinges on devolved matters.
Institutional Review Committees
- Date: 01/05/2025
The Assembly and Executive Review Committee (AERC) asked for a comparative paper on institutional review committees to inform its strategic direction for the remainder of the current mandate. This paper provides an update on a previous, similar paper prepared for the AERC in June 2020.
Assembly & Executive reform – a literature review
- Date: 01/05/2025
This briefing paper has been prepared following a request from the Assembly & Executive Review Committee (AERC). The committee asked for a literature review to identify relevant, recent research that considers reform of the political institutions in Northern Ireland. The committee also asked the research to identify additional expert witnesses and other stakeholders from which the committee might receive supplementary evidence.
Approaches to inter-parliamentary and international engagement in other legislatures
- Date: 30/01/2025
This briefing paper has been prepared for the Assembly and Executive Review Committee. It sets out the arrangements for international and inter-parliamentary engagement in the Scottish Parliament, Senedd, House of Commons and the Oireachtas.
