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Queen's Speech 2005: Full list of bills
Full bills
The full list of bills is given below. These bills are set for introduction during this session, although some may be carried over if certain conditions are met. Others may be introduced in draft form, as private members' bills or as government bills at a later stage.
- Education Bill: Gives schools more autonomy and extends new powers to parents in order to drive up standards and tackle failing institutions.
- Parental Rights Bill: Extends maternity pay and workplace rights for parents. Mothers will be able to transfer some elements of their statutory rights to their partner.
- Child Care Bill: Extends access to affordable and flexible childcare for families with children up to 14 years of age.
- Health and Improvement Protection Bill: Creates new laws to improve hospital hygiene standards. Also legislates to introduce smoking ban in some areas.
- NHS Redress Bill: Overhauls the compensation regime when NHS treatment goes wrong.
- Housing Benefit Bill: Reforms the housing benefit system to put emphasis on work. Puts greater onus on tenant to pay rent.
- Incapacity Benefit Bill: Aims to reduce the numbers on incapacity benefit, while ensuring adequate provision for those who are ill or seriously disabled.
- Regulation of Financial Services Bill: Home reversion plans, used to create Sharia compliant mortgages, will be brought under the auspices of the Financial Services Authority.
- Identity Cards Bill: Creates a new system of ID cards for all British citizens.
- Violent Crime Bill: Addresses the growing problem of violent crime by tackling gun culture and targeting alcohol-related disorder. Also tackles the misuse of firearms and the carrying of knives.
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Introduces a points system for migrants and aims to speed up the applications process.
- Management of Offenders Bill: Extends the principle of early release through tagging and develops a system of day fines and community sentencing.
- Criminal Defence Bill: Reforms the Criminal Defence Service and tackles the rising legal aid bill.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill: Following the Bichard inquiry the legislation prevents those who are deemed unsuitable from working with children and young people from doing so.
- Child Contact and Inter-country Adoption Bill: Gives the courts more powers and provides a statutory framework for the suspension of inter-country adoptions.
- Mental Health Bill: Provides a new framework for the provision of compulsory treatment of those with mental disorders.
- Charities Bill: Modernises charity law and redefines the definition of a charitable cause. Also improves the regulation of charity fundraising.
- Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill: Creates new law to tackle those who stir up racial hatred. It will apply to members of extremist organisations who target individual groups.
- Equality Bill: Will establish a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
- Natural Environment Bill: Will create a single body, called Natural England, to manage the natural environment. It will also establish a new Commission for Rural Communities.
- Common Land Bill: Modernises the management of common land to ease relations between landowners and commoners.
- Road Safety Bill: Overhauls the fixed penalty system to better reflect the nature of the offence and seeks to reduce the number of deaths on Britain's roads.
- Regulatory Reform Bill: Makes it simpler to remove outdated or unnecessary regulations or legislation.
- Consumer Credit Bill: Aims to create a fairer and more competitive credit market. Also targets those who charge extortionate interest.
- Company Law Reform Bill: Aims to enhance shareholder value and develop a long-term investment culture. Also makes it easier to set up and run a company.
- Electoral Administration Bill: Overhauls the laws governing electoral fraud to reduce fraud fears and develop a more secure postal voting system.
- Government of Wales Bill: Seeks to extend the powers of the Welsh Assembly.
- Olympics Bill: (contingent upon selection) Would meet the commitments given by the London 2012 committee in its bid.
- Armed Forces Bill: Overhauls the court martial system to modernise discipline within the armed forces.
- EU Referendum Bill: Enacts the referendum on the EU constitution.
- EU Accession Bill: Permits the further expansion of the European Union - taking in Romania and Bulgaria.
- Animal Welfare Bill*: Brings 20 complex pieces of legislation into one in order to simplify the rules governing animal suffering.
- Civil Aviation Bill: Deals with the reduction of airport noise and develops a sustainable aviation industry.
- Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill*: Creates a new post of commissioner for the elderly in Wales. Key role will be to promote awareness of the issues affecting older people.
- Compensation Bill: Aims to tackle the creeping compensation culture in the UK.
- Crossrail Bill*: Enables the construction of London's Crossrail project.
- Fraud Bill*: Clarifies and extends the law to cover new forms of hi-tech fraud.
- Judicial Pensions Bill*: Complex bill, which reforms the judicial pensions system in line with the Custom and Revenue's simplified tax regime.
- Merchant Shipping Bill*: Aims to complement existing legislation to make an additional £440m available in the event of a major oil spill.
- National Lottery Bill*: Makes the lottery responsive to people's priorities and ensures that the licensing and operation of the lottery continues to deliver for good causes.
- Transport (Wales) Bill*: Places a duty on the Welsh Assembly to promote safe, integrated, sustainable and efficient transport in Wales.
Draft bills
- Draft Counter-Terrorism Bill
- Draft Pensions Bill
- Draft Coroner Reform Bill*
- Draft Legal Services Bill*
- Draft Marine Bill*
- Draft Tourism Accommodation (Wales) Bill*
- Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill - continued from last session
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Published: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:45:00 GMT+01
Bills announced in the Queen's Speech, or those detailed by the government, are not formally introduced. Ministers will introduce the individual pieces of legislation over the coming months. They are first debated at second reading stage and can be introduced in either the House of Commons or House of Lords.
* Indicates that the bill was not in Queen's Speech, but announced by the government alongside the address. Draft bills are referred to in the section below
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