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NHS in England, the Northern Powerhouse, National Security and support for working people (including the new National Living Wage).
Other new Bills include the Modern Transport Bill which will include legislation to enable the future development of the UK’s first commercial spaceports and new laws to make the UK ready to pioneer driverless cars.
The Local Growth and Jobs Bill will include a transfer of up to £13 billion to councils through allowing them to retain 100% of the business rates they collect and new measures to allow combined authority mayors to levy business rate supplements in order to fund infrastructure projects where there is the support of local business.
T he Education for All Bill will include new laws to expand the academies programme in the poorest performing local authority areas and a new funding formula to deliver fair funding for every school and pupil in the country.
The Prison and Courts Reform Bill will include new powers for Prison Governors to allow them unprecedented levels of control over all aspects of prison management and a complete overhaul of education, health and training to reduce re-offending and give people the chance of a fresh start.
The Bill of Rights will include measures to reform and modernise the UK human rights framework and protections against abuse of the system and misuse of human rights laws.
The Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill will include stronger powers to disrupt extremists and protect the public.
The Criminal Finances Bill will include measures to reform proceeds of crime legislation to allow the government to recoup more illicit income and make it a new criminal offence for corporations that fail to stop staff facilitating tax evasion. The Small Charitable Donations Bill will allow thousands of charities and community amateur sports clubs to maximise fundraising power by reforming the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme to ensure it supports the maximum number of charities and donations possible.
To read the Queen’s Speech and for further detail in associated documents go to GOV.UK .
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ONS reports on internet users in 2016 23 May 2016
In the same week that it was announced that government flagship service GOV.UK Verify had passed the Digital by Default Service Standard Assessment that will enable it to go from BETA service to a live service, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have published their annual report on Internet users in the UK.
The annual statistical bulletin Internet users in the UK: 2016 can be downloaded in PDF format but the main points in summary report are that:
87.9% of adults in the UK (45.9 million) had recently (in the last 3 months) used the internet, compared with 86.2% in 2015. 10.2% (5.3 million) had never used the internet compared with 11.4% in 2015. Almost all adults aged 16 to 24 years were recent internet users (99.2%), in contrast with 38.7% of adults aged 75 years and over. 89.4% of men (22.8 million) and 86.4% of women (23.1 million) were recent internet users, up from 87.9% and 84.6% in 2015. Women aged 75 and over, had seen the largest rise in recent internet use, up 169.0% from 2011; however, still less than a third (32.6%) were recent users in 2016. 25.0% of disabled adults had never used the internet in 2016, down from 27.4% in 2015. Of the NUTS* 1 regions, Northern Ireland had seen the largest increase (13.2 percentage points) in recent internet use since 2011; however, in 2016 it was still the region with the lowest recent usage (82.0%). Inactive adults who had never used the internet or who used the internet more than 3 months ago, has decreased by 13.3 percentage points since 2011.
* NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) was created by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat) as a single hierarchical classification of spatial units used for statistical production across the European Union (EU).
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