The 23 Lib Dem policies included in today's Queen's Speech
May 25, 2010 5:07 PM
HM The Queen delivering the Queen's Speech
A large number of Liberal Democrat policies were announced in today's Queen's Speech, including the party's major priorities: fair taxes, a fair start for children, a green and sustainable economy, and a comprehensive clean up of politics. In detail, the policies to become law were:
1. Making the tax and benefits system fairer and simpler, including a significant increase in the personal allowance and an ambition to increase it to £10,000
2. Restoring the earnings link to pensions
3. Greater freedoms for teachers over the curriculum
4. Measures to improve energy efficiency in homes and businesses
5. Support for low carbon energy production
6. Financial services regulation to learn the lessons of the financial crisis
7. Fixed term parliaments of five years
8. A referendum on the Alternative Vote
9. The right to sack MPs guilty of serious misconduct
10. Reform of party funding
11. Moving towards a wholly or partly elected House of Lords, elected by proportional representation
12. A Bill to restore freedoms and civil liberties, through the abolition of Identity Cards and repeal of unnecessary laws
13. Giving greater powers to councils and giving neighbourhoods and communities more control over planning and housing decisions
14. Ending child detention
15. Fair compensation for Equitable Life victims
16. Enabling the creation of a national high speed rail network
17. The modernisation of the Royal Mail
18. Flexible working and promotion of equal pay
19. Strengthening the voices of patients and the role of doctors in the NHS
20. A commission on long-term reform of social care
21. Cutting Quangos and government bureaucracy
22. Implementing the recommendations of the Calman Commission (strengthening devolved powers in Scotland)
23. A referendum on further powers for the Welsh Assembly
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