Analysis of Parliamentary Questions Process of the Higher Authorities in the Executive Branch (The Comparative Study in Iranian Parliament and the UK’s House of Commons)

One of the Legislative's informative tools is questioning which provides the opportunity for people's representatives to be informed of the performance of the executive branch. In the Parliamentary and the semi-presidential system, representative's questioning from higher authorities of the executive branch is tangible in comparison to other monitoring tools. In the UK -as the origin of the parliamentary systemsthe House of Commons has an important function in questioning the ministers and the prime minister. In Iran, the Islamic consultative assembly has also anticipated the possibility of representative's questioning ministers and the president in the Constitution and in the parliamentary procedure. The process of questioning and responsiveness of higher authorities and its effects are different in the two legal systems. While representative's questioning and responsiveness of higher authorities of the executive branch in the UK House of Commons has a significant effect in terms of quantity, in Iran different legal effects are expected from questioning in terms of quality: questioning the president could result in referring to the judiciary and questioning the ministers may ultimately lead to the interpellation plan. Developing a comparative approach and an analytical method, this article has paid attention to different aspects of representative's questioning the higher authorities of the executive branch in Iran's Islamic consultative assembly and the UK's House of Commons. Using the results of comparative studies, some recommendations have been provided for Iranian legal system.