Vai acabar tudo em 2017

Crown jewels: The Imperial State Crown includes 2868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and 5 rubies, and weighs more than 2lb

QUEEN'S SPEECH: AT-A-GLANCE

National Insurance Contributions Bill/ Finance Bill

No rises in rates of income tax, VAT or National Insurance before 2020. Separate measures will ensure no-one working 30 hours on the minimum wage will pay income tax.

 

EU Referendum Bill

Vote on Britain leaving the EU before the end of 2017.

Full Employment and Welfare Benefits Bill

Target of full employment, 3million new apprenticeships. Benefit cap cut from GBP26,000 to GBP23,000 and extends the freeze on working-age benefit rates.

 

Scotland Bill

Major powers handed to Holyrood, which would be responsible for raising around 40 per cent of Scotland's taxes.

 

Trade Unions Bill

Half of members must take part in ballots for a walkout to be legal and tougher rules for handing members' subs to the Labour party.

 

Housing Bill

Right to Buy extended to 1.3 million housing association tenants. 20,000 cut-price starter homes for first-time buyers.

Childcare Bill

Free childcare for working parents of three and four year-olds doubled to 30 hours per week.

 

Energy Bill

Local people given power to veto wind farms.

 

Immigration Bill

Levy on firms which hire foreign workers, tougher checks on illegal immigrants, sat-nav tagging of foreign criminals. 

 

Education and Adoption Bill

500 new free schools, 'coasting' schools turned into academies. 

Extremism Bill

New banning orders, disruption orders and closure orders to tackle groups and individuals who promote 'messages of hate'.

Investigatory Powers Bill

Provides police and intelligence agencies with tools to target online communications of terrorists and other subjects of interest.

 

Psychoactive Substances Bill

Introduces ban on so-called 'legal highs' by making it an offence to produce, import or supply substances capable of having a psychoactive effect on humans.