HERE is a summary of the new pieces of legislation set out in the King\u2019s Speech:<\/p>\n
\u2013 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Will give the Government powers to nationalise British Steel.<\/p>\n
\u2013 High Speed Rail (Crewe \u2013 Manchester) Bill: The plan for Northern Powerhouse Rail is intended to deliver faster, more frequent services between cities in northern England. The Bill will outline a \u201cfoundational\u201d element for the scheme from Manchester to Millington in Cheshire, via Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n
\u2013 European Partnership Bill: The legislation will provide a framework to adopt EU rules where the Government strikes deals with Brussels.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Small Business Protections (Late Payments) Bill: The law is intended to protect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with powers including maximum payment terms of 60 days, and mandatory interest rates 8% above the Bank of England base rate for late payments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2013 Clean Water Bill: Creates a new regulator for the industry and a new water ombudsman to provide stronger consumer protections.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Competition Reform Bill: Will make the Competition and Markets Authority\u2019s investigations faster and more predictable and reduce burdens on businesses.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Regulating for Growth Bill: Includes measures aimed at tackling a system the Government views as complex, risk-averse and poorly suited to modern technologies and business models.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Enhancing Financial Services Bill: Will modernise how lenders are regulated and update consumer protection arrangements.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Highways (Financing) Bill: Will introduce a new funding model to get greater levels of private capital investment into road schemes.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Overnight Visitor Levy Bill: Will allow mayors and potentially other leaders of large authorities in England to introduce a tourist tax in their areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2013 Social Housing Renewal Bill: Will prioritise the building of new social rented homes and tighten eligibility for the Right to Buy to protect existing social housing stock.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill: Marks the beginning of the end for what Sir Keir Starmer called the \u201cunfair feudal system\u201d of leasehold properties. It will ban the use of leasehold for new flats, cap ground rents at \u00a3250 a year and implement a new process for converting to commonhold.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Education for All Bill: Will reform the system in England for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).<\/p>\n
\u2013 Representation of the People Bill: Will lower the voting age to 16 in all UK elections, along with other reforms.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Remediation Bill: Boosts powers for regulators and closes loopholes to accelerate the removal of unsafe cladding from buildings.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Draft Conversion Practices Bill: Will protect people from \u201charmful and abusive\u201d attempts to change their sexual orientation or transgender identity.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Draft Ticket Tout Bill: Will make it illegal to resell a ticket at more than its original cost, cap the service fees charged by resale platforms and allow regulators to impose fines of up to 10% of global turnover on firms breaking the new laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2013 Sporting Events Bill: Will put in place measures to support the delivery of the Euro 2028 football tournament and position the UK as an attractive bidder for other events such as the Women\u2019s World Cup in 2035.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Police Reform Bill: Scraps police and crime commissioners and includes other reforms including a new legal framework for the use of facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n
\u2013 NHS Modernisation Bill: Abolishes NHS England and puts in place reforms including a new single patient record that people can view on their NHS app.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Railways and Passenger Benefits Bill: Establishes Great British Railways, the new state-owned company in charge of both track and trains, and creates a new passenger watchdog.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Digital Access to Services Bill: Creates a new voluntary digital ID system for use across public services and the wider economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2013 Public Office (Accountability) Bill: The long-running wrangle over the Hillsborough Law\u2019s application to the security services prevented the legislation being passed before the end of the last parliamentary session.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Removal of Peerages Bill: Creates a mechanism to strip titles from disgraced peers without the need for a new law to be passed in each individual case. The Prime Minister promised the legislation in the wake of the Lord Peter Mandelson scandal.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Courts Modernisation Bill: Includes the Government\u2019s controversial plan to restrict trial by jury to the most serious cases.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Another piece of legislation that has been carried over from the previous session, it is an attempt to deal with the complicated and controversial legacy of the Troubles.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Draft Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Bill: Modernises Victorian-era rules and addresses licensing vulnerabilities which have been exploited by grooming gangs.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Civil Aviation Bill: Will strengthen consumer rights and protections for passengers and change the regulation of airport slots to support the expansion of airports.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2013 Sovereign Grant Bill: Will enable the amount of money paid to support the King\u2019s official duties to fall once work to update the plumbing and wiring of Buckingham Palace is completed.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Energy Independence Bill: Legislates for a series of reforms to upgrade homes, speed up the construction of infrastructure and the deployment of renewable power.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Nuclear Regulation Bill: Modernises the way nuclear projects are regulated to support the quicker delivery of new power stations.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Electricity Generator Levy Bill: Will break the link between electricity and gas prices and increase the windfall tax from 45% to 55% to drive low-carbon generators currently benefiting from high market prices set by gas onto fixed-price contracts.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Tackling State Threats Bill: Will allow the Government to ban foreign state-backed organisations engaged in espionage, sabotage and interference in the UK, like Iran\u2019s revolutionary guard.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Armed Forces Bill: Will ensure the UK continues to have an army, a commitment which must be renewed for constitutional reasons every five years. It will also enshrine the Armed Forces Covenant in law.<\/p>\n
\u2013 National Security Bill: Will criminalise a range of harmful online content, and criminalise planning mass attacks, to clamp down on extremist threats to the country.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Will take steps to clamp down on small boat crossings, and tighten up the asylum appeals system.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Will aim to bolster online protections for businesses and services across the country, to make sure they are protected from cyber attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERE is a summary of the new pieces of legislation set out in the King\u2019s Speech: \u2013 Steel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[345,939,802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,1012,528,18624,1014,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-963566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-benefits","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-holiday-tips-tricks-and-hacks","18":"tag-labour-party","19":"tag-refugee-crisis","20":"tag-travel-advice","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116583672620814593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}