[James McLaughlin]

Andrew,

Sounds like an interesting piece of work, happy to mention this to my members and let you know if any of them would be willing to talk to you and answer any questions. Do you have any timescales for this?

Best wishes,

James

[Dave Mckenna]

The National Assembly for Wales is current finalising an Inquiry into Overview and Scrutiny.

This paper from Rachel Ashworth provides a good starting point and some useful references.

http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bu...ds=11/2008

If you look through the other agendas you will find some other useful papers relating to this inquiry.

[Ed Hammond]

There is a piece of ESRC-funded work on "evidence for accountability" coming to a close at the moment, looking at how a wide variety of government functions - including local government scrutiny - gather evidence and develop conclusions. I think that the final report is going to be release in mid-May; we'll certainly cover it on this website when it is.

[Nick Beale]

There was the five-year "Evaluating Local Government New Constitutions and Ethics" research done for the (former) Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and I can remember others by the LGIU and the Association for Public Service Excellence. I'm pretty sure the list is longer than that, but does anyone ever research how executives work?