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
Small Donations Bill
- 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
Crime and Courts Bill
- 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.