From education to energy to tenants to railways: key points from the King’s Speech | The King’s Speech

There are 40 bills, ranging from game-changers to legislative reforms, but no real surprises. So what’s in Labour’s first King’s Speech? Here’s what was promised, area by area.

Economy and money

Budget responsibility Invoice:Also known as the “Liz Truss Bill”, this bill stipulates, following the Prime Minister’s disastrous mini-budget with an incomplete mandate, that all such budgetary measures must be accompanied by an independent assessment by the Office for Budget Responsibility.

National wealth funds Invoice:Establishing into law one of the government’s major wealth creation efforts, a £7.3bn capitalised fund to distribute investment.

Draft Audit reform and Business governance Invoice:A more technical piece of legislation establishing a revamped regulatory body for the auditing industry.

Pension diagrams Invoice:A comprehensive pensions bill that includes measures to help people get more out of their retirement funds.

Environment

Great British Energy Invoice:This is one of the most significant bills, which creates the public clean energy company that Labor has long promised.

Water (special measures) Invoice:A law that exploits anger over waterway pollution and the privatisation of water companies, provides for personal criminal liability for water utility managers and the power to ban bonuses if environmental standards are not met.

Sustainable aviation fuel (income support mechanism) Invoice:An attempt to increase investment in UK plants to produce low-emission aviation fuels.

Health

Tobacco and vapes Invoice:A legacy of Rishi Sunak’s government, this project would gradually ban smoking and prevent the marketing of e-cigarettes to children.

Mental health Invoice:A wide-ranging bill to modernise mental health provisions, including areas such as how people can be detained and treated under the Mental Health Act.

Accommodation

Planning and Infrastructure Invoice:One of the government’s key measures, designed to streamline and speed up planning and associated infrastructure needs to enable more housing to be built. It includes a more top-down approach, with penalties for municipalities that fail to act.

Tenants rights Invoice:The end to “no-fault” evictions is finally being introduced, as long promised but never implemented by Sunak’s government.

Draft lease and common property reform Invoice:Another housing plan not implemented under Sunak, this one attempts to reform the long lease system, including banning exorbitant ground rents and the sale of new long lease flats.

Workers’ rights

Job rights Invoice:The long-promised bill, accompanied by a promise that it will be introduced in parliament within the government’s first 100 days, would ban zero-hours contracts and fire-and-rehire practices, add additional rights such as flexible working, and make parental leave, sick pay and protection against unfair dismissal immediate rights.

Crime and immigration

Border security, asylum and immigration Invoice:The measure creates the new Border Security Command, intended to limit the number of unofficial Channel crossings by asylum seekers, with the introduction of other enforcement measures.

Crime and preserve the order Invoice:A more general police bill, including measures on community policing and stricter rules for the inspectorate to intervene in failing police forces.

Victims, courts and public protection Invoice:Among other measures, this would strengthen the powers of the Victims’ Commissioner.

Terrorism (protection of local) Invoice:Also known as Martyn’s Law, after Martyn Hett who was among those killed in the Manchester Arena attack, the law would ensure public buildings are better protected against such attacks.

Decentralization and governance

English devolution Invoice:Another much-touted measure, intended to extend devolution across England and give mayors and local authorities the opportunity to acquire additional powers.

Hillsborough law:Introduce a legal duty of candour for officials and authorities to prevent Hillsborough-type cover-ups.

House of Lords (hereditary peers) Invoice:No more hereditary peers will sit in the House of Lords.

Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (extension) Invoice:This would aim to increase the number of female bishops in the House of Lords.

Transportation

Passenger railway services (public ownership) Invoice:A simple bill, but a potentially significant change: bringing rail services back into public ownership.

Rail reform Invoice: This would officially establish Great British Railways, the state-owned railway company.

High-speed train (from Crewe to Manchester) Invoice:A legal acknowledgement that Labour will not resurrect the Birmingham-Manchester section of HS2, but will instead focus on east-west links.

Better the buses Invoice:A measure that could have a big impact, it changes the law to allow local authorities and mayors to place bus services under local control, rather than running them privately.

Education and skills

Children well-being Invoice:Introduced free breakfast clubs in primary schools as well as efforts to make uniforms cheaper.

Skills England Invoice:This group brings together employers, unions and other stakeholders to try to stimulate vocational training.

Equality

Draft equality (race and disability) Invoice:This would establish equal pay rights for people from minority ethnic groups and disabled people, including mandatory reporting of ethnicity and disability benefits for larger employers.

Draft conversion practices Invoice:A bill to ban conversion practices, including those related to gender, is looking rather complicated.

Miscellaneous

Soccer governance Invoice:This would introduce an independent, fan-friendly football regulator.

Armed forces Commissioner Invoice:A self-evident proposition: create a post of commissioner for the armed forces.

North Ireland legacy legislation:Another potentially tricky measure, aimed at replacing Northern Ireland’s legacy law, which has been criticised for measures such as conditional amnesties for Troubles-era crimes.

Bank resolution (recapitalization) Invoice:A technical bill on what happens when a bank fails, including efforts to ensure that taxpayers do not bear the costs.

Cybersecurity and resilience Invoice:Another technical bill on the protection of digital services.

Arbitration Invoice:A bill that aims to modernize and speed up dispute resolution systems.

Product security and metrology Invoice:Metrology means measurement – ​​this is another fairly specific bill aimed at increasing economic efficiency and growth.

Digital information and Swalk data Invoice:In the same vein, this would change the standards for data sharing and introduce a proper system for digital verification services.

THE crown domain Invoice:This project aims to modernize the Crown Estate, the management branches of the State’s twin properties, in particular by improving its investment capacity.

Commonwealth parliamentary association and international Red Cross Committee (Status) Invoice:This is perhaps the most specific bill of all: it would “treat the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the International Committee of the Red Cross in a manner comparable to that of an international organisation of which the United Kingdom, or Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, is a member”.

Holocaust Memorial Invoice:Create a national Holocaust memorial and learning center in the next legislative session.