Queen's Speech Summary: 25 bills, including two draft ones. 5 major themes:
1. Levelling Up + building back better from Covid. Lots of proposals but only three named bills for this - Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, Planning Bill and the Health and Care Bill.
1. Levelling Up + building back better from Covid. Lots of proposals but only three named bills for this - Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, Planning Bill and the Health and Care Bill.
2. Brexit: Three bills to enact post EU national regimes on areas like subsidies and to set up 8 freeports - the Subsidy Control Bill, Procurement Bill and National Insurance Contributions Bill.
3. Security: two big bits of legislation to tackle the increasing threat from Chinese and Russian espionage, online and in person - the Counter-State Threats Bill and Telecommunications (Security) Bill.
4. Green: to mark the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, a law to enshrine very ambitious new carbon reduction targets: the Environment Bill and 3 animal welfare bills.
5. Constitutional reform: 4 intriguing-sounding bills to shake up the state, including claiming back the power to call elections when PM wants - Electoral Integrity Bill, Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, Judicial Review Bill + Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
What's NOT in the Queen's Speech? Three big omissions:
- no bill to end veteran troops prosecutions in NI, just a vague offer of "legislation”
- no promise to legislate on social care, just "proposals will be brought forward”
- the long awaited online harms bill is just draft
- no bill to end veteran troops prosecutions in NI, just a vague offer of "legislation”
- no promise to legislate on social care, just "proposals will be brought forward”
- the long awaited online harms bill is just draft
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