AT A GLANCE

■ The Queen’s Speech included:

■ Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill: This will give local leaders new powers to help rejuvenate high streets by forcing landlords to rent out empty shop units. It will also place a duty on the Government to produce an annual report updating the country on its progress to deliver its missions for levelling up.

■ Schools Bill: Cracks down on truancy, beefs up the powers of education watchdogs and shakes up the funding system.

■ Transport Bill: Provides the new “Great British Railways” body with the powers it needs to take control of the railway system.

■ Energy Security Bill: Focused on paving the way for new, lowcarbon technologies and growing the consumer market for electric heat pumps. Will also appoint Ofgem as the new regulator for heat networks and extend the energy price cap.

■ Draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill: Cracks down on “subscription traps” and fake reviews, strengthens protections for consumers using Christmas savings clubs. Also gives the Competition and Markets Authority the ability to decide for itself when consumer law has been broken, and to issue penalties for those breaches.

■ UK Infrastructure Bank Bill: Establishes the bank in law, with clear objectives to support regional and local economic growth and deliver net zero.

■ Media Bill: Legislates for Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries’ plans to privatise Channel 4.

■ Electronic Trade Documents Bill: This will put electronic trade documents on the same legal footing as their paper equivalents, which the Government says will cut down on “wasteful paperwork” and “needless bureaucracy”.

■ Brexit Freedoms Bill: Creates new powers to strengthen the ability to amend, repeal or replace retained EU law by reducing reliance on primary legislation.

■ Procurement Bill: This will enshrine in law the objectives of public procurement including: delivering value for money, maximising public benefit, treating suppliers equally and without discrimination, and acting, and being seen to act, with integrity.

■ Financial Services and Markets Bill: Revokes retained EU law on financial services and updates regulators’ objectives to bring about a greater focus on growth and international competitiveness.

■ Higher Education Bill: Could be used to set minimum qualification requirements for a person in England to be eligible for student loans to go to university. Will also create a lifelong loan entitlement to support people to retrain.

■ Social Housing Regulation Bill: Aimed at improving tenants’ rights in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, with beefed-up powers for the regulator.

■ Renters Reform Bill: This will seek to abolish “no fault” evictions by removing Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 but also seek to reform possession grounds for landlords, strengthening them for repeated cases of rent arrears.

■ Harbours (Seafarers’ Remuneration) Bill: In the wake of the mass sacking of P&O Ferries workers, this will seek to crack down on ferry operators who do not pay National Minimum Wage.