Background briefings from Queen's Speech 2006
Here you can download, as PDF files, background briefings to the Bills contained in the Queen's Speech 2006.
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- Queen's Speech 2006 (Meeting the Challenges at Home and Abroad)
- Economy, stability and growth
- Strong, secure and stable communities
- Counter terrorism
- Criminal Justice
- Identity Cards
- Offender management
- Serious and organised crime
- Border and Immigration Bill
- Fraud trials
- Tribunals, courts and enforcement
- Climate change and energy supply
- Public Service Reform and social exclusion
- Welfare Reform (Carryover)
- Child Support Bill
- Pension reform
- Concessionary bus travel
- Education reform
- Further education and training
- A modern NHS
- Mental Health Bill
- Tissues and embryo authority (Draft)
- Road transport (Draft)
- Planning Reform
- Consumer advocacy and regulation of estate agent
- House of Lords reform
- Local government
- Greater London Authority Bill
- Statistics Reform
- Parliamentary supply estimate
- Devolution in Scotland
- Devolution in Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Her Majesty the Queen's visit to the United States of America
- Inwards visit of the President of Ghana
- Middle East Peace Process
- Supporting the Government of Iraq
- Supporting the Government of Afghanistan
- Non proliferation
- European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- United Nations and World Trade Organisation
- Africa and Darfur
- Her Majesty's attendance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala
- Partnership between the European Union and the United States of America
Main programmes not referred to in the speech
- Corporate manslaughter and homicide (carryover)
- CrossRail (carryover)
- Digital switchover
- Legal Services
- Exchanges & Clearing Houses
- Funding of Political Parties
Draft bills not referred to in the Queen's speech
