Full list of legislation announced in the Queen's Speech
By Matthew Barrett
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I have listed below all the Bills announced in the Queen's Speech this morning:
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
- Repeal unnecesary legislation and limiting state inspections of companies
- Set up a Green Investment Bank
- Reform competition law
- Transfer responsibility for developing the Code of Audit Practice to the National Audit Office
- Transfer the Audit Commission's data-matching powers to another body.
Banking Reform Bill
- Implement some of the Vickers report recommendations to ringfence retail and investment actitivities within banks
- Reduce the commitment of the taxpayer and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme by ensuring that depositors are treated as preferred creditors and paid before unsecured creditors.
Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill
- A new independent ombudsman to ensure supermarkets treat suppliers fairly
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Large supermarket chains will be held to account if they break the Groceries Code
- Increase the income of small charities by releasing them from the requirement to collect Gift Aid declarations on small donations
Energy Bill
- Introduce a feed-in tariff with contracts for difference, which will support low-carbon energy generation
- Prevent construction of new coal plants which emit more than a certain level of carbon
- Ensure energy security through a capacity mechanism
- Create an independent Office for Nuclear Regulation
- Sell the Government Pipeline and Storage System, which is currently owned by the Ministry of Defence
- Introduce a Strategy and Policy Statement on energy
Draft Water Bill
- Reform of the water industry in England and Wales
Pensions Bill
- Replace the current system with a single-tier pension - as set out in the Budget
- Bring forward the increase in the state pension age to 67 between 2026 and 2028.
- Commit to increasing the state pension age in accordance with increases in life expectancy
Public Service Pensions Bill
- Start implementation of the Final Proposed Agreements reached with unions on the three largest public sector pension schemes, based on the recommendations of the Independent Public Services Pensions Commission
- Introduce a new basis for calculating public service pensions based on average earnings, rather than final salary
- Protect those closest to retirement from the changes to the amount of pension that they will receive
- Introduce cost controls so that members of pension schemes and their employers share the cost of future unforeseen changes
Draft Local Audit Bill
- Abolish the Audit Commission and set out the new procedure for audit of public bodies
Children and Families Bill
- Cut bureaucracy preventing early specialist support for children with special educational needs
- Cut the amount of time an ethnic minority child waits to be adopted
- Speed up care proceedings by reforming the family justice system. There will be a time limit of six months for a care case to be completed. The requirement for interim care and supervision orders to be renewed every month will be renewed
- Allow parents to take flexible parental leave
- Enable children to have a relationship with both their parents if their family breaks up
- Measures to improve provision for disabled children
Draft Care and Support Bill
- Modernise the legal framework for care and support in advance of the forthcoming White Paper on the subject
- Respond to the recommendations of the Law Commission, which conducted a three-year review into social care law
- Establish Health Education England and the Health Research Authority as quangos
- Create a London Health Improvement Board.
Electoral Registration and Administration Bill
- Require voters to register individually rather than by household from 2015
- Make it easier for people to register to vote, possibly through digital applications
House of Lords Reform Bill
- Introduce elected lawmakers
- Cut the size of the Upper Chamber
- Elect peers according to the regions and the nations of the UK
- Allow the House to expel members who have committed serious offences
- Establish a National Crime Agency to investigate serious, organised and complex crime
- Establish a Single County Court system and Single Family Court
- Reform the judicial appointments process
- Provide incentives for compliance with fines
- Allow data to be shared between the courts and tribunals service
- Reform community sentences
- Introduce a new offence of driving, or being in charge of, a motor vehicle when over the limit for controlled substances
Defamation Bill
- Introduce a requirement that a statement must have caused serious harm for it to be defamatory
- Address libel tourism
Justice and Security Bill
- Allow courts to consider all material relating to a case, even where national security prevents that information from being made public
Draft Communications Data Bill
- Enable the police and intelligence agencies to access communications data
- This will include an updated framework for the collection, retention and acquisition of communications data which enables a flexible response to technological change
European Union Bill
- To seek Parliament’s approval for the agreed financial stability mechanism within the Eurozone
Croatia Accession Bill
- Seek the approval of Parliament on the accession of Croatia to the EU
Via PoliticsHome.
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