Where are the Labour reforms?

The bill contains new powers to make it easier to mobilise former military personnel and enshrines the Armed Forces Covenant into law.

A Bill to continue the Armed Forces Act 2006; to amend that Act and other enactments relating to the armed forces; to make provision about the reserve forces; to make provision about visiting forces; to make provision about the Ministry of Defence Police; to make provision about the defence functions of the Oil and Pipelines Agency; to make provision about the protection of military remains; and for connected purposes.

The bill will deliver consumer enforcement powers to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to reduce harm, ensure compliance and allow for timely regulatory intervention.

A Bill to make provision for the protection of purchasers and users of air transport and airport services; to make provision about airspace change, air traffic and air navigation services and airport slots and schedules; to confer power on the Civil Aviation Authority to make rules; to make provision about aviation offences; and for connected purposes.

Introduce a new Water Ombudsman to ensure complaints are taken seriously and resolved quickly and effectively. It will combine powers from Ofwat, the Drinking Water Inspectorate, the Environment Agency and Natural England under a new integrated water regulator. The bill will also update outdated regulations and frameworks to tackle pollution at source.

Will ban new leaseholds for flats and cap ground rents at £250 per year. It will implement a new process for converting to commonhold and create a new legal framework for commonhold providing full freehold ownership for flats and a bespoke approach to communal living without control by third party landlords. It will make it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to extend their lease or buy their freehold.

Another housing plan not delivered under Sunak, this attempts to reform the leasehold system, including with a ban on extortionate ground rents and on the sale of new leasehold flats.

This draft bill would allow leaseholders to extend their lease and buy their freehold and take over the freeholder’s building management function. There will also be restriction on the sale of new leasehold flats. It also proposes tighter regulation of ground rents for existing leaseholders.

Delivers reforms to the Competition and Markets Authority to make competition investigations faster and more predictable reducing burdens on business and ensuring consumers benefit sooner.

Removes the right of defendants to elect for a Crown Court (i.e. trial by Jury) in cases that can be heard in either a Crown or Magistrate Court and extend Magistrate court’s sentencing powers. Replaces the automatic right to appeal against a conviction in Magistrates Court with a permission stage. Introduces new modes of trial by judge alone for complex and lengthy fraud cases. It will bring forward measures to prevent victims of sexual offences being unfairly undermined in the court room and clarify the support available to them. It will repeal the presumption of parental involvement to ensure children’s best interests are at the heart of decision making.

A Bill to Make provision in relation to criminal courts in England and Wales; to make provision about the leadership of tribunals; to amend section 1 of the Children Act 1989 to remove the presumption relating to the involvement of parents in the life of a child; and for connected purposes.

The bill aims to strengthen online protections for businesses and services across the country, as well as bring data centres into the scope of Britain’s cyber security reporting scheme.

Another technical bill about protecting digital services.

A Bill to Make provision, including provision amending the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018, about the security and resilience of network and information systems used or relied on in connection with the carrying on of essential activities.

Will introduce a non-mandatory free to access digital ID that will provide a secure proof of identity across a range of government services.

A draft bill will be published for pre-legislative scrutiny that will be balanced and targeted to ensure that legitimate healthcare and broader support is provided for those seeking to explore their sexual orientation or gender.

Likely to be quite knotty – a bill to ban conversion practices, including those connected to gender.

The bill will give regulators stronger enforcement powers and improve transparency and information sharing nationwide. It will also deliver more accessible services for disabled passengers.

Will make it illegal to resell a ticket for a live event at more than its original cost and cap the service fees of resale sites. It will make it illegal for someone to resell more tickets than they originally entitled to buy and place strict obligations on resale platforms. The Competition and Markets Authority will be empowered to impose fines of up to 10% of global turnover on those found to be breaching new laws.

Will provide early support to children with SEND by requiring settings to produce individual support plans for every child with SEND and introduce a new national template. It will create National Inclusion Standards to identify and implement best practice. It will provide over £200 million of investment in training for all staff. It will ensure schools are funded on a fair and consistent basis wherever they are in the country and require schools to pool a portion of their SEND funding. It will introduce a ‘triple lock’ of transitional provisions so no child loses their current support.

Will uncouple electricity prices from gas prices and offer new low-carbon generators a long term contract that guarantees a stable fixed price for the energy they generate.

The bill will cut energy bills by placing Exchequer funding of 75% of the Renewables Obligation scheme for three years on a permanent basis. It will create the Warm Homes Agency and implement rules to ensure landlords invest in home upgrades.

Will modernise how the sector is regulated enabling it to grow and lend more to businesses. It will make consumer protections fit for the digital age. It will ensure high standards of regulation and oversight.

A Bill to make provision about the regulation of financial services and markets; and for connected purposes.

Will give powers to fulfil treaty obligations in UK EU agreements when it serves the UK national interest and the power to extend this into any future treaties.

Will introduce a new funding model to unlock greater levels of private capital investment in road infrastructure. This will entail a licence regime, an independent regulator and backstop measures to protect publicly used assets.

The bill will make it easier for the government to revoke refugee status, take further steps to clamp down on small boat crossings and restrict taxpayer support to asylum seekers.

The bill will criminalise harmful online content that “glorifies, trivialises or normalises” serious violence in the wake of the Southport attack in 2024.

The bill will abolish NHS England transferring its functions into the Department for Health and Social Care. It will also transfer the functions of Health Watch England into the department and the functions of the Health Services Safety and Investigations Body into the Care Quality Commission. It will create the Single Patient Record enabling the NHS to bring together health and social care records in one place and enable people to access their own records.

A Bill to make provision about health and social care.

The bill will enable victims and bereaved families across the UK to seek information and accountability through a reformed Legacy Commission.

Another potentially tricky measure, aiming to replace the Northern Ireland Legacy Act, which was criticised for measures such as conditional amnesties for Troubles-era crimes.

A Bill to make new provision to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Will invest £45 billion to deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail. Will include upgrades to lines east of the Pennines for delivery in the 2030s; bring forward a new route between Liverpool and Manchester via Warrington and Manchester Airport; and deliver better cross-Pennine links in addition to the Transpennine Route Upgrade.

Will overhaul and streamline existing regulation and frameworks to improve coordination and speed of decision making.

Will provide a legislative framework to enable mayors and potentially other local leaders to introduce a levy.

Create a new National Police Service that will deliver a unified response to the most serious crimes, set national standards and ensure a more consistent service. It will establish Local Policing Areas led by a senior officer - these will form part of fewer, larger police forces. The bill will abolish Police and Crime Commissioners. It will establish clear national priorities led by a more active Home Office and set and enforce standards for policing. It will also establish a legal framework to underpin law enforcement use of facial recognition and similar technologies.

Will deliver the ‘Hillsborough Law’ placing a duty of candour on public bodies and officials. It will create a new offence of misleading the public. It will provide bereaved families access to non-means tested legal aid for all inquiries where a public authority is an interested person and place a duty on public authorities to only use legal representation when necessary and proportionate.

Introducing a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities in an attempt to prevent Hillsborough-style cover ups.

A Bill to Impose a duty on public authorities and public officials to act with candour, transparency and frankness; to make provision for the enforcement of that duty in their dealings with inquiries and investigations; to require public authorities to promote and take steps to maintain ethical conduct within all parts of the authority; to create an offence in relation to public authorities and public officials who mislead the public; to create further offences in relation to the misconduct of persons who hold public office and to abolish the common law offence of misconduct in public office; to make provision enabling persons to participate at inquiries and investigations where the conduct of public authorities may be in issue; and for connected purposes.

Establishes Great British Railways as a new publicly owned company. The bill also sets up a new Passenger Watchdog that will set consumer standards for railways and investigate poor service. The bill will simplify fares and tickets by consolidating the existing operator websites into a single online platform.

This would formally establish Great British Railways, the state-run rail firm.

A Bill to make provision about railways and railway services; and for connected purposes.

Will bring the UK’s regulatory system fit for the future by strengthening the Growth Duty and creating “Sandbox Power” which will allow businesses to test cutting edge technologies safely, prove what works and scale up faster.

Will fix the cladding crisis by making construction product manufacturers pay and equipping regulators with the powers to compel action. It will introduce a legal duty to remediate and a backstop that will allow a third party such as Homes England to carry out works themselves.

Will create a mechanism for removing peerages from disgraced peers without the need for bespoke legislation.

Will give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections. It will broaden the range of ID that can be used at polling stations and move towards automated testing systems and strengthen the resilience and capacity of postal voting. The Bill will also introduce tougher rules on political donations and strengthen the power of the Electoral Commission to enforce these rules. It will bring in measures to tackle the intimidation and harassment of voters, electoral staff and campaigners online and in person.

A Bill to make provision extending the right to vote to 16 and 17 year olds; to make provision about the registration of voters; to make provision about the administration and conduct of elections, referendums and recall petitions; to make provision about election agents’ addresses; to make provision about political expenditure and political donations; to make provision about information to be included in electronic campaigning material; to make provision about offences and civil sanctions in connection with elections, referendums and recall petitions and with donations and expenditure for political purposes; to make provision about the disclosure of information by the Electoral Commission; to make provision about the disqualification of offenders for holding elective offices, and their sentencing, where offences are aggravated by hostility towards persons involved in elections, referendums or recall petitions or holders of such offices; and for connected purposes.

Will impose maximum payment terms of 60 days, enforce mandatory interest for late payments and introduce a time limit for raising invoice disputes. It will require boards or audit committees of persistently late paying large companies to publish commentary on poor payment performance and give the Small Business Commissioner new powers to investigate, adjudicate and fine businesses that persistently fail to comply.

This bill will extend the eligibility criteria for ‘right to buy’ to ten years for existing properties and 35 years for new build social housing. It will increase protections for tenants who are victims of domestic abuse.

A Bill to make provision about social housing.

Will set the grant amount for the Sovereign and reduce the amount paid following the Buckingham Palace Reservicing Programme.

Will ensure that major sporting events can be delivered as efficiently as possible by coordinating transport planning, deterring touts and prohibiting advertising and trading around events.

A Bill to make provision for enabling a common set of legislative provisions to be applied to major sporting events held in the United Kingdom; to confer power to provide financial assistance in relation to sporting events held in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland; and for connected purposes.

Will nationalise the steel industry and bring British Steel under public ownership. It will establish a public interest test that must be met for this transfer of ownership and introduce compensation powers to obtain independently assessed compensation.

A Bill to make provision enabling the Secretary of State in certain circumstances to make regulations relating to the transfer of securities issued by, or property, rights and liabilities of, a steel undertaking; and for connected purposes.

The bill will give the government powers to ban state-backed organisations involved in espionage, sabotage and interference in the UK, such as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.

A Bill to make provision for the designation of bodies involved in foreign power threat activity; to create offences relating to bodies designated under this Act; and for connected purposes.

To establish a national Holocaust memorial and learning centre next to parliament.

A Bill to make provision for expenditure by the Secretary of State and the removal of restrictions in respect of certain land for or in connection with the construction of a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.

This would aim to increase the number of female bishops in the Lords.

A Bill to extend the period within which vacancies among the Lords Spiritual are to be filled by bishops who are women.

Perhaps the most specific bill of all: this would “treat the Commonwealth parliamentary association and the International Committee of the Red Cross in a manner comparable to that of an international organisation of which the United Kingdom, or His Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom, is a member”.

A Bill to make provision about the status of, and privileges and immunities in connection with, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the International Committee of the Red Cross; and for connected purposes.

No more hereditary peers will sit in the Lords.

Hereditary peers — around 92 male Lords entitled to seats as members of the British aristocracy — will no longer be able to sit and vote in the chamber. The government said reform was “long overdue and essential”. These peers will still be allowed to keep their passes to the Westminster estate, nicknamed the “best club in London”.

A Bill to remove the remaining connection between hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords; to make provision about resignation from the House of Lords; to abolish the jurisdiction of the House of Lords in relation to claims to hereditary peerages; and for connected purposes.

A self-explanatory one – to create a commissioner for the armed forces.

A Bill to establish, and confer functions on, the Armed Forces Commissioner; to abolish the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman; and for connected purposes.

A broad bill to modernise mental health provisions, including in areas such as how people can be detained and treated under the Mental Health Act.

A Bill to make provision to amend the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to mentally disordered persons; and for connected purposes.

Left over from Rishi Sunak’s government, this would gradually ban smoking and stop vapes being marketed at children.

Labour is rolling over a previous Conservative bill that will gradually introduce a smoking ban for people born after January 2009. It will also crack down on child-friendly marketing of vapes.

A Bill to make provision about the supply of tobacco, vapes and other products, including provision prohibiting the sale of tobacco to people born on or after 1 January 2009 and provision about the licensing of retail sales and the registration of retailers; to enable product and information requirements to be imposed in connection with tobacco, vapes and other products; to control the advertising and promotion of tobacco, vapes and other products; and to make provision about smoke-free places, vape-free places and heated tobacco-free places.

This would set out equal pay rights for people from minority ethnic groups and disabled people, including mandatory ethnicity and disability pay reporting for bigger employers.

This would introduce a fans-friendly independent football regulator.

The government will establish a new independent regulator to address financial sustainability of the soccer industry and ensure fans’ voices are heard. This regulator would operate a licensing system and would have to make sure clubs are financially sound.

A bill to establish the Independent Football Regulator; to make provision for the licensing of football clubs; to make provision about the distribution of revenue received by organisers of football competitions; and for connected purposes.

Among other measures, this would boost the powers of the Victims’ commissioner.

A Bill to Make provision about the experience of victims within the criminal justice system; about the functions of the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses; and about procedure and the administration of criminal justice.

Otherwise known as Martyn’s Law after Martyn Hett who was among those killed in the Manchester Arena attack, this would make sure public buildings are better protected against such attacks.

A Bill to require persons with control of certain premises or events to take steps to reduce the vulnerability of the premises or event to, and the risk of physical harm to individuals arising from, acts of terrorism; to confer related functions on the Security Industry Authority; to limit the disclosure of information about licensed premises that is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism; and for connected purposes.

A more general policing bill, including measures on neighbourhood policing and stronger rules for the inspectorate to intervene in failing police forces.

This will expand the powers of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services to intervene in failing police forces and will introduce higher mandatory national vetting standards across policing.

A Bill to make provision about anti-social behaviour, offensive weapons, offences against people (including sexual offences), property offences, the criminal exploitation of persons, sex offenders, stalking and public order; to make provision about powers of the police, the border force and other similar persons; to make provision about confiscation; to make provision about the police; to make provision about terrorism and national security, and about international agreements relating to crime; to make provision about the criminal liability of bodies; and for connected purposes.

An attempt to increase investment in UK plants to make lower-emission aviation fuels.

A Bill to Make provision about sustainable aviation fuel.

This aims to modernise the crown estate, the semi-detached property management arms of the state, including improving its ability to invest.

This will end “outdated restrictions” on the activities of the Crown Estate, which owns the seabed around England and Wales — where the government wants to build a new generation of offshore wind turbines. The estate will get the power to borrow and its powers to invest will be widened.

A Bill to amend the Crown Estate Act 1961.

A more technical piece of legislation setting out a revamped regulator for the auditing sector.

The Financial Reporting Council will be replaced with a new Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority in a move designed to “tackle bad financial reporting”. This follows large corporate failures including BHS and Carillion. The authority will be empowered to investigate and impose sanctions on directors for printing dodgy accounts.

…This would change data-sharing standards and introduce a proper system for digital verification services.

A bill to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the creation and solicitation of purported intimate images and for connected purposes.

Metrology means measurement – this is another quite specific bill intended to increase economic efficiency and growth.

A Bill to make provision about the marketing or use of products in the United Kingdom; about units of measurement and the quantities in which goods are marketed in the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.

A bill that aims to modernise and hasten dispute resolution systems.

The bill will deliver on recommendations set out by the Law Commission in 2022, after the previous government failed to enact legislation before leaving office. Measures to strengthen arbitrator immunity and revise the framework for challenge is meant to make a sector worth £2.5bn to the UK economy more robust.

A Bill to amend the Arbitration Act 1996; and for connected purposes.

A technical bill about what happens if a bank fails, including efforts to make sure taxpayers do not bear the costs.

Measures will empower the Bank of England to use funds drawn from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to deal with the administration and sale of any failed bank, particularly smaller institutions. The FSCS’s funds would also be used to meet a failing bank’s recapitalisation costs.

A Bill to make provision about recapitalisation costs in relation to the special resolution regime under the Banking Act 2009.

This brings together employers, unions and others to try to boost skills training.

This sets up a new quango called Skills England to oversee skills training, initially transferring functions from an existing body called the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

A bill to transfer the functions of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, and its property, rights and liabilities, to the Secretary of State; to abolish the Institute; and to make amendments relating to the transferred functions.

This sets up the new Border Security Command, intended to limit the number of unofficial Channel crossings by asylum seekers, with other enforcement measures introduced.

This legislation sets up the new Border Security Command to crack down on criminal gangs bringing asylum seekers across the English Channel. It will also ensure stronger penalties against a range of organised immigration crimes.

A Bill to make provision about border security; to make provision about immigration and asylum; to make provision about sharing customs data and trailer registration data; to make provision about articles for use in serious crime; to make provision about serious crime prevention orders; to make provision about fees paid in connection with the recognition, comparability or assessment of qualifications; and for connected purposes.

An acknowledgment in law that Labour will not resurrect the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, instead focusing on east to west links.

A Bill to make provision for a railway between a junction with Phase 2a of High Speed 2 south of Crewe in Cheshire and Manchester Piccadilly Station; for a railway between Hoo Green in Cheshire and a junction with the West Coast Main Line at Bamfurlong, south of Wigan; and for connected purposes.

Another much-touted measure, intended to extend devolution across England and giving mayors and local authorities the opportunity to take on extra powers.

The government has promised to make the devolution of powers a default setting for England’s regions. Legislation will establish a new framework to move power out of Westminster, with the aim of empowering local leaders to make decisions over infrastructure planning, transport, skills and employment support.

A Bill to make provision about combined authorities, combined county authorities, the Greater London Authority, local councils, police and crime commissioners and fire and rescue authorities, local audit and terms in business tenancies about rent.

Introduces free breakfast clubs in primary schools as well as efforts to make uniforms cheaper.

A Bill to make provision about the safeguarding and welfare of children; about support for children in care or leaving care; about regulation of care workers; about regulation of establishments and agencies under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; about employment of children; about breakfast club provision and school uniform; about allergy safety in schools; about attendance of children at school; about regulation of independent educational institutions; about inspections of schools and colleges; about teacher misconduct; about Academies and teachers at Academies; repealing section 128 of the Education Act 2002; about school places and admissions; about establishing new schools; and for connected purposes.

Finally introducing an end to “no fault” evictions, as long promised but never delivered by Sunak’s government.

This will end Section 21 “no fault” evictions for tenants, removing the threat of arbitrary evictions to increase tenant security. The Tories promised this in 2019 but failed to get similar legislation through parliament before they lost the general election in early July.

A Bill to make provision changing the law about rented homes, including provision abolishing fixed term assured tenancies and assured shorthold tenancies; imposing obligations on landlords and others in relation to rented homes and temporary and supported accommodation; and for connected purposes.

A measure that could have a big impact, this changes the law to allow local authorities and mayors to bring bus services under local control, rather than being privately run.

A bill to make provision about local and school bus services; and for connected purposes.

A law that taps into the anger about polluted waterways and privatised water companies that includes personal criminal liability for water bosses and powers to ban bonuses if environmental standards are not met.

Britain’s struggling water industry will be subjected to new “tough special measures” designed to clean up dirty rivers, lakes and seas. Water bosses will face personal criminal liability for lawbreaking if their companies repeatedly flout sewage regulations. Water regulator Ofwat will get powers to ban executive bonuses if environmental standards are not met.

A Bill to make provision about the regulation, governance and special administration of water companies.

Very much one of the big-ticket bills, this sets up Labour’s long-promised publicly owned clean energy production company.

This will set up a new publicly-owned “energy production company” to own and operate clean power projects such as solar and wind in partnership with the private sector. The new group, headquartered in Scotland, will have £8.3bn of new money over the five-year parliament.

A Bill to make provision about Great British Energy.

A simple bill, but a potentially big change – bringing rail services back into public ownership.

The government will bring rail services back into public ownership and amend legislation so a public-sector operator is the default position when current franchise contracts conclude. A new public body, Great British Railways, will also be created alongside measures to combine infrastructure and services under one roof.

A Bill to make provision for passenger railway services to be provided by public sector companies instead of by means of franchises.

The long-promised bill, coming with a pledge that it will be introduced to parliament in the first 100 days of the government, would ban zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire practices, add extra rights such as on flexible working, and make parental leave, sick pay and protection from unfair dismissal immediate rights.

An employment rights bill will enshrine in law a package of measures previously known as Labour’s “New Deal For Working People”. The bill will ban zero-hours contracts, end “fire and rehire” practices, and give immediate access to parental leave and sick pay. It will also make it easier for unions to take strike action by reversing recent Tory legislation.

A Bill to make provision to amend the law relating to employment rights; to make provision about procedure for handling redundancies; to make provision about the treatment of workers involved in the supply of services under certain public contracts; to provide for duties to be imposed on employers in relation to equality; to amend the definition of “employment business” in the Employment Agencies Act 1973; to provide for the establishment of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and the Social Care Negotiating Bodies; to amend the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023; to make provision for the implementation of international agreements relating to maritime employment; to make provision about trade unions, industrial action, employers’ associations and the functions of the Certification Officer; to make provision about the enforcement of legislation relating to the labour market; and for connected purposes.

One of the government’s main measures, intended to streamline and speed up planning and associated infrastructure needs to get more housing built. It includes a more top-down approach, with penalties for councils that fail to get moving.

Planning reform is at the centre of Labour’s ambitions to build houses and deliver renewable energy infrastructure, for example accelerating upgrades to the national grid. Reform of local planning committees is aimed at streamlining processes, while attempts to increase planning authorities’ capacity is aimed at boosting developer and investor confidence.

A Bill to make provision about infrastructure; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision for a scheme, administered by Natural England, for a nature restoration levy payable by developers; to make provision about development corporations; to make provision about the compulsory purchase of land; to make provision about environmental outcomes reports; and for connected purposes.

A broad pensions-based bill covering measures intended to help people get more from their retirement pots.

Legislation will place an emphasis on preventing people losing track of various small pension pots by consolidating them. This move will help tackle a problem affecting some 2.8mn pots, according to the Pensions Policy Institute, a think-tank. An accompanying value for money framework is aimed at encouraging better pension fund performance in the interest of economic growth.

A Bill to make provision about pension schemes; and for connected purposes.

Setting out in law one of the government’s main wealth-creating efforts, a £7.3bn capitalised fund to spread investment.

This will put the new £7.3bn “national wealth fund” on a permanent statutory footing to deliver state funding to the decarbonisation of heavy industry such as steel, ports and the car industry.

However, the NWF will not be a new standalone body. Instead the money will be initially spent through the UK Infrastructure Bank with “closer alignment” with another existing state lender called the British Business Bank.

Otherwise nicknamed the “Liz Truss bill”, this sets out, in the wake of the short-serving PM’s disastrous mini-budget, that all such fiscal measures must come with an independent assessment by the Office for Budget Responsibility.

Measures in this bill are described by the government as delivering a “fiscal lock” by ensuring the Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, assesses all tax and spending announcements.

The legislation is partly a political move designed to highlight Labour’s respect for the OBR in contrast with Liz Truss, former Tory prime minister, who refused to get an assessment from the body before her disastrous “mini” Budget in 2022.

A Bill to impose duties on the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility in respect of the announcement of fiscally significant measures.

Will ban new leaseholds for flats and cap ground rents at £250 per year. It will implement a new process for converting to commonhold and create a new legal framework for commonhold providing full freehold ownership for flats and a bespoke approach to communal living without control by third party landlords. It will make it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to extend their lease or buy their freehold.

Another housing plan not delivered under Sunak, this attempts to reform the leasehold system, including with a ban on extortionate ground rents and on the sale of new leasehold flats.

This draft bill would allow leaseholders to extend their lease and buy their freehold and take over the freeholder’s building management function. There will also be restriction on the sale of new leasehold flats. It also proposes tighter regulation of ground rents for existing leaseholders.

The bill aims to strengthen online protections for businesses and services across the country, as well as bring data centres into the scope of Britain’s cyber security reporting scheme.

Another technical bill about protecting digital services.

A Bill to Make provision, including provision amending the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018, about the security and resilience of network and information systems used or relied on in connection with the carrying on of essential activities.

A draft bill will be published for pre-legislative scrutiny that will be balanced and targeted to ensure that legitimate healthcare and broader support is provided for those seeking to explore their sexual orientation or gender.

Likely to be quite knotty – a bill to ban conversion practices, including those connected to gender.

The bill will enable victims and bereaved families across the UK to seek information and accountability through a reformed Legacy Commission.

Another potentially tricky measure, aiming to replace the Northern Ireland Legacy Act, which was criticised for measures such as conditional amnesties for Troubles-era crimes.

A Bill to make new provision to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Will deliver the ‘Hillsborough Law’ placing a duty of candour on public bodies and officials. It will create a new offence of misleading the public. It will provide bereaved families access to non-means tested legal aid for all inquiries where a public authority is an interested person and place a duty on public authorities to only use legal representation when necessary and proportionate.

Introducing a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities in an attempt to prevent Hillsborough-style cover ups.

A Bill to Impose a duty on public authorities and public officials to act with candour, transparency and frankness; to make provision for the enforcement of that duty in their dealings with inquiries and investigations; to require public authorities to promote and take steps to maintain ethical conduct within all parts of the authority; to create an offence in relation to public authorities and public officials who mislead the public; to create further offences in relation to the misconduct of persons who hold public office and to abolish the common law offence of misconduct in public office; to make provision enabling persons to participate at inquiries and investigations where the conduct of public authorities may be in issue; and for connected purposes.

Establishes Great British Railways as a new publicly owned company. The bill also sets up a new Passenger Watchdog that will set consumer standards for railways and investigate poor service. The bill will simplify fares and tickets by consolidating the existing operator websites into a single online platform.

This would formally establish Great British Railways, the state-run rail firm.

A Bill to make provision about railways and railway services; and for connected purposes.