Research Briefing
Northern Ireland Assembly: “New Decade, New Approach”
The Northern Ireland Office has published the text of a deal to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland. What are its proposals to reform the Assembly and Executive?
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Northern Ireland Assembly: “New Decade, New Approach”
The Northern Ireland Office has published the text of a deal to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland. What are its proposals to reform the Assembly and Executive?
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Research Briefing
Marriage of same sex couples: Northern Ireland
The law in Northern Ireland is due to change very shortly to enable same sex couples to marry and opposite sex couples to form a civil partnership. This briefing paper deals with the marriage of same sex couples in Northern Ireland.
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Research Briefing
The new EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill
A briefing on the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019-20, published in December 2019, and a comparison with the previous version of the Bill considered by the House of Commons in October 2019.
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Research Briefing
How will Brexit affect the Union?
Many challenges and tensions concerning the devolved institutions of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland remain unresolved
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How will Brexit affect the Union?
Many challenges and tensions concerning the devolved institutions of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland remain unresolved
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Research Briefing
Northern Ireland Budget Bill
A Bill Briefing on the Northern Ireland Budget Bill 2019-20
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Research Briefing
Withdrawal Agreement Bill: Implications for devolved institutions
The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (WAB) has implications for the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly. This Insight explains the impacts of the WAB on devolution.
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Research Briefing
Withdrawal Agreement Bill: The Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
What does the Withdrawal Agreement Bill say about what will happen to Northern Ireland post-Brexit? How will it translate into UK law the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the Withdrawal Agreement that replaced the 'backstop'?
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Withdrawal Agreement Bill: Implications for devolved institutions
The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (WAB) has implications for the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly. This Insight explains the impacts of the WAB on devolution.
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Research Briefing
The October 2019 EU UK Withdrawal Agreement
Boris Johnson's Government negotiated a new 'deal' with the European Union, formed of a Political Declaration and a Withdrawal Agreement. This paper focuses on the Withdrawal Agreement and how it compares to the one negotiated by Theresa May's Government.
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Research Briefing
No-deal Brexit: A guide to Commons Library research
The No-deal Brexit: A guide to Commons Library research is an annotated bibliography of sources published by the House of Commons Library on a potential no-deal Brexit. It will be updated regularly. Links to the papers included in the resource are available on this page, the downloadable version includes additional comment on some of the selected papers.
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Research Briefing
Brexit: parliamentary scrutiny of UK replacement treaties
The UK is party to hundreds of international treaties with third states or organisations, many of them on trade, by virtue of its EU membership. To continue to benefit from the advantages of these agreements, the Government has been seeking to replace them in a UK bilateral context. The Government has prioritised trade agreements, but has also agreed replacement agreements covering aviation services and safety, and road transport, for example. But Parliament is not happy about the way the Government is carrying out this 'treaty continuity programme' and Committees in both Houses have called for a greater scrutiny role for Parliament in treaty-making processes. This paper looks at what has been going on and what Parliamentary Committees in both Houses have asked for. It includes a table showing where we are with scrutiny of these treaties and what sort of scrutiny they have undergone, both in their precursor form as EU treaties and currently as replacement treaties.
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Research Briefing
Abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland: Do Westminster votes undermine devolution?
Yesterday (9 July) the House of Commons voted by large majorities to change the law regarding abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
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Abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland: Do Westminster votes undermine devolution?
Yesterday (9 July) the House of Commons voted by large majorities to change the law regarding abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
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