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	This response appears on the [https://www.ice.org.uk/news-insight/media-centre/press-releases-list/ice-response-on-the-queens-speech/ ICE website dated May 10.]		This response appears on the [https://www.ice.org.uk/news-insight/media-centre/press-releases-list/ice-response-on-the-queens-speech/ ICE website dated May 10.]

−	= APM’s response to the Queen’s speech =	+	== APM’s response to the Queen’s speech ==

	Association for Project Management (APM) has challenged the UK Government to harness the power of projects for social and economic benefit, following the Queen’s speech: the State Opening of Parliament.		Association for Project Management (APM) has challenged the UK Government to harness the power of projects for social and economic benefit, following the Queen’s speech: the State Opening of Parliament.

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	This response appears on the [https://www.ice.org.uk/news-insight/media-centre/press-releases-list/ice-response-on-the-queens-speech/ ICE website dated May 10.]		This response appears on the [https://www.ice.org.uk/news-insight/media-centre/press-releases-list/ice-response-on-the-queens-speech/ ICE website dated May 10.]
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		+	= APM’s response to the Queen’s speech =
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		+	Association for Project Management (APM) has challenged the UK Government to harness the power of projects for social and economic benefit, following the Queen’s speech: the State Opening of Parliament.
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		+	The announcement of the new Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill has put the regeneration of the UK’s high street in the spotlight, but APM has urged the Government to also deliver the infrastructure, technology, communication and transport projects – among others – that will enable it to achieve its levelling up ‘missions’ by 2030. APM is also urging the Government not to miss the opportunity of the link between levelling up and sustainability, but to use the momentum of the recent COP26 climate change conference to level up in a sustainable way, to support net zero commitments.
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		+	Speaking after The Queen’s speech, Andrew Baldwin, Head of Public Affairs at APM, said: “There are clear benefits to regenerating the UK’s high streets, but it’s only part of the picture. It’s important that levelling up investment is not compromised for the many other projects that are needed to tackle economic inequality. The recent National Infrastructure Commission warning that parts of the National Infrastructure Strategy are in danger of slipping demonstrates why we need renewed Government focus here.
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		+	“Other noteworthy project-related announcements in the speech included new legislation to set up the UK Infrastructure Bank, a body designed to increase financing of infrastructure projects; an energy security bill to deliver the commitments in the British Energy Security Strategy and the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution; and new powers to build and operate the next stage of the HS2 high-speed rail line.
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		+	“It’s good to see so much new legislation linked to projects. But it’s important to remember however that legislation itself will not deliver these projects, which are so vital to the levelling up agenda. A strong vision, a clear delivery roadmap and a project-centric approach are needed to make levelling up succeed. We’re committed to working with the Government, businesses and the wider project community to support delivery of the projects that will change people’s lives for the better.
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		+	“Once the full detail of the Government’s approach is known, we’ll know whether they’re serious about harnessing the power of projects.”
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		+	This response appears on the [https://www.apm.org.uk/news/apm-s-response-to-the-queen-s-speech/ APM website dated May 10.]

	= Other Bills presented =		= Other Bills presented =

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−	Enshrine in law the objectives of public procurement including:	+	* Enshrine in law the objectives of public procurement including: delivering value for money, maximising public benefit, treating suppliers equally and without discrimination, acting, and being seen to act, with integrity.
−		+	* Require buyers to have regard to strategic priorities for public procurement as set out in the National Procurement Policy Statement. Introduce new, clearer arrangements for how contracting authorities can buy at pace if necessary to protect life or health, public order or safety, with strengthened safeguards for transparency.
−	* delivering value for money	+	* Tackle unacceptable behaviour and poor performance through new exclusion rules and give buyers the tools they need to properly take account of a bidder’s past performance. Providing a number of sector-specific features where necessary, including tailored rules to better suit defence and security procurement in order to protect our national interests. Reform the Single Source Contract Regulations to ensure we continue to pay fair prices on single-source defence contracts while providing value for money.
−	* maximising public benefit	+
−	* treating suppliers equally and without discrimination	+
−	* acting, and being seen to act, with integrity	+
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−	Require buyers to have regard to strategic priorities for public procurement as set out in the National Procurement Policy Statement. Introduce new, clearer arrangements for how contracting authorities can buy at pace if necessary to protect life or health, public order or safety, with strengthened safeguards for transparency. Tackle unacceptable behaviour and poor performance through new exclusion rules and give buyers the tools they need to properly take account of a bidder’s past performance. Providing a number of sector-specific features where necessary, including tailored rules to better suit defence and security procurement in order to protect our national interests. Reform the Single Source Contract Regulations to ensure we continue to pay fair prices on single-source defence contracts while providing value for money.	+

	== Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill ==		== Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill ==
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−	Provide the power to make changes to UK procurement regulations to implement the obligations in the Government Procurement chapters of the Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Agreements.	+	* Provide the power to make changes to UK procurement regulations to implement the obligations in the Government Procurement chapters of the Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Agreements.

	== Modern Slavery Bill ==		== Modern Slavery Bill ==

−	Strengthen protection and support for victims of human trafficking and modern slavery, and increase accountability of companies and organisations to drive out modern slavery from their supply chains.	+	* Strengthen protection and support for victims of human trafficking and modern slavery, and increase accountability of companies and organisations to drive out modern slavery from their supply chains.
−		+	* Mandate reporting areas in modern slavery statements published on a government-run registry, extended to public bodies, introducing civil penalties for organisations that do not comply. Strengthen Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Orders and Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders, to prevent and disrupt modern slavery crimes, better protect victims, backed up by criminal sanctions.
−	Mandate reporting areas in modern slavery statements published on a government-run registry, extended to public bodies, introducing civil penalties for organisations that do not comply. Strengthen Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Orders and Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders, to prevent and disrupt modern slavery crimes, better protect victims, backed up by criminal sanctions.	+

	== Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Bill ==		== Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Bill ==
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−	Empower Government to ban public bodies already subject to public procurement rules from conducting their own boycott campaigns against foreign countries or territories. Stopping public bodies from taking a different approach to the UK Government on sanctions and foreign relations. This includes preventing public institutions from carrying out independent boycotts, divestments, and sanctions against, foreign countries and/or territories, or those linked to them, the sale of goods and services from foreign countries or territories, and UK firms which trade with such countries or territories, where such an approach is not in line with UK Government sanctions.	+	* Empower Government to ban public bodies already subject to public procurement rules from conducting their own boycott campaigns against foreign countries or territories. Stopping public bodies from taking a different approach to the UK Government on sanctions and foreign relations. This includes preventing public institutions from carrying out independent boycotts, divestments, and sanctions against, foreign countries and/or territories, or those linked to them, the sale of goods and services from foreign countries or territories, and UK firms which trade with such countries or territories, where such an approach is not in line with UK Government sanctions.

	== Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill ==		== Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill ==
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−	Broaden the Registrar of Companies’ powers to become a more active gatekeeper and custodian of more reliable data, including powers to check, remove or decline information submitted to, or already on, the Company Register. Introducing identity verification for people who manage, own, and control companies and other UK registered entities. This will improve the accuracy of Companies House data, support business decisions and law enforcement investigations.	+	* Broaden the Registrar of Companies’ powers to become a more active gatekeeper and custodian of more reliable data, including powers to check, remove or decline information submitted to, or already on, the Company Register. Introducing identity verification for people who manage, own, and control companies and other UK registered entities. This will improve the accuracy of Companies House data, support business decisions and law enforcement investigations.
−		+	* Providing Companies House with more effective investigation and enforcement powers and introducing better cross-checking of data with other public and private sector bodies. Tackle the abuse of limited partnerships (including Scottish Limited Partnerships), by strengthening transparency requirements and enabling them to be properly wound up. Create powers to more quickly and easily seize and recover crypto assets, which are the principal medium used for ransomware. The creation of a civil forfeiture power will mitigate the risk posed by those who cannot be criminally prosecuted but use their funds to further criminality. Enable businesses in the financial sector to share information more effectively to prevent and detect economic crime.
−	Providing Companies House with more effective investigation and enforcement powers and introducing better cross-checking of data with other public and private sector bodies. Tackle the abuse of limited partnerships (including Scottish Limited Partnerships), by strengthening transparency requirements and enabling them to be properly wound up. Create powers to more quickly and easily seize and recover crypto assets, which are the principal medium used for ransomware. The creation of a civil forfeiture power will mitigate the risk posed by those who cannot be criminally prosecuted but use their funds to further criminality. Enable businesses in the financial sector to share information more effectively to prevent and detect economic crime.	+

	= Comments from the Industry =		= Comments from the Industry =
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	* Queen's Speech 2019.		* Queen's Speech 2019.
	* Queen's Speech 2015.		* Queen's Speech 2015.
−	* Affordable housing.
	* Aligning net zero with the levelling-up agenda.		* Aligning net zero with the levelling-up agenda.
	* Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.		* Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
	* Government departments responsibility for construction.		* Government departments responsibility for construction.
	* Government publishes UK infrastructure strategy.		* Government publishes UK infrastructure strategy.
−	* High Speed 2 (HS2).
−	* Housing minister.
−	* Infrastructure.
−	* Land register.
	* Levelling up.		* Levelling up.
	* Levelling up the infrastructure agenda.		* Levelling up the infrastructure agenda.
−	* Localism Act.
−	* National Infrastructure Commission.
−	* National Planning Policy Framework.
−	* Osborne launches National Infrastructure Commission.
−	* Planning permission.
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−	== ~~Leveling~~ Up and Regeneration Bill ==	+	== Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill ==

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−	\| “A bill will be brought forward to drive local growth, empowering local leaders to regenerate their areas, and ensuring everyone can share in the United Kingdom’s success. The planning system will be reformed to give residents more involvement in local development.” To “lay the foundations” for all of England to benefit from a devolution deal by 2030 and local leaders greater power.	+	\| “A bill will be brought forward to drive local growth, empowering local leaders to regenerate their areas, and ensuring everyone can share in the United Kingdom’s success. The planning system will be reformed to give residents more involvement in local development.” To “lay the foundations” for all of England to benefit from a devolution deal by 2030 and give local leaders greater power.
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−	A new model of combined authority- ‘County Deal’; local leader powers to enhance local accountability, 'join up services and provide transparent decision making to rejuvenate communities, increase the ability to reflect local preferences including directly elected leaders’ titles. A duty on the government to set Levelling Up missions and produce an annual report updating delivery of these missions.	+	A new model of combined authority - a ‘County Deal’; local leader powers to enhance local accountability, 'join up services and provide transparent decision making to rejuvenate communities, increase the ability to reflect local preferences including directly elected leaders’ titles. A duty on the government to set Levelling Up missions and produce an annual report updating delivery of these missions.

	Strengthen neighbourhood planning, make it easier for local authorities to get local plans in place, digitise the system to make them easier to find, understand and engage with, and to limit speculative development. Simplifying and standardising the processes for local plans to be produced more quickly and easier for communities to influence, giving residents more of a say over changing street names.		Strengthen neighbourhood planning, make it easier for local authorities to get local plans in place, digitise the system to make them easier to find, understand and engage with, and to limit speculative development. Simplifying and standardising the processes for local plans to be produced more quickly and easier for communities to influence, giving residents more of a say over changing street names.
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−	Increase social housing tenants’ rights to better homes and enhance their ability to hold their landlords to account, addressing concerns that the Grenfell Tower ~~tragedy~~ raised.	+	Increase social housing tenants’ rights to better homes and enhance their ability to hold their landlords to account, addressing concerns that the Grenfell Tower fire raised.

−	Enable a regulator to intervene with landlords performing poorly on consumer issues, and inspect landlords to make sure they provide tenants with quality of accommodation and services. New tenant Satisfaction Measures to allow tenants to see comparative ~~landord performances~~, and enable requests for information from landlords ~~(as with Freedom of Information Act Local Authority landlords)~~.	+	Enable a regulator to intervene with landlords performing poorly on consumer issues, and inspect landlords to make sure they provide tenants with quality accommodation and services. New tenant Satisfaction Measures to allow tenants to see comparative landlord performance, and enable requests for information from landlords.

−	48 hours notice to a landlord before a survey is carried out, powers to arrange emergency repairs of tenants’ homes following a survey, and where there is evidence of systemic failure by the landlord. This is to ensure serious issues are resolved rapidly where a landlord is unable or unwilling to act~~, there~~ will be no cap on the fines that the Regulator can issue to a landlord who fails to meet required standards.	+	48 hours notice to a landlord before a survey is carried out, powers to arrange emergency repairs of tenants’ homes following a survey, and where there is evidence of systemic failure by the landlord. This is to ensure serious issues are resolved rapidly where a landlord is unable or unwilling to act. There will be no cap on the fines that the Regulator can issue to a landlord who fails to meet required standards.

	== Renters Reform Bill ==		== Renters Reform Bill ==
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	Abolish so-called ‘no fault’ evictions by removing Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, for tenant security in the private rented sector, empowering challenges to poor practice and unfair rent increases without fear of retaliatory eviction.		Abolish so-called ‘no fault’ evictions by removing Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, for tenant security in the private rented sector, empowering challenges to poor practice and unfair rent increases without fear of retaliatory eviction.

−	Reform possession grounds for landlords, introducing new and stronger grounds for repeated incidences of rent arrears, and reducing notice periods for anti-social behaviour, ensuring ~~that~~ they can regain their property efficiently when needed. Introduce a new ombudsman for private landlords so disputes can be resolved without court, ensuring landlords take action in response to complaints.	+	Reform possession grounds for landlords, introducing new and stronger grounds for repeated incidences of rent arrears, and reducing notice periods for anti-social behaviour, ensuring they can regain their property efficiently when needed.
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		+	Introduce a new ombudsman for private landlords so disputes can be resolved without court, ensuring landlords take action in response to complaints.

	Introduce a new property portal to help landlords understand obligations, give tenants performance information to hold their landlord to account as well as aiding local authorities.		Introduce a new property portal to help landlords understand obligations, give tenants performance information to hold their landlord to account as well as aiding local authorities.

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	= Background and Introduction =		= Background and Introduction =

−	~~For~~ the first time, Prince Charles stood in for the Queen to open a new session of Parliament, due to her mobility issues. He gave her speech outlining her government's priorities, to mark the opening of Parliament. This included the traditional ceremony ~~and concluded~~ with Black Rod, representing the Monarchy being shut out from Parliament, ~~a tradition expressing~~ the independence of ~~the~~ Government ~~from the monarchy~~ in decision making.	+	In May 2022, for the first time, Prince Charles stood in for the Queen to open the new session of Parliament, due to her mobility issues. He gave her speech outlining her government's priorities, to mark the opening of Parliament. This included all the traditional ceremony, with Black Rod, representing the Monarchy being shut out from Parliament, an expression of the independence of Government in decision making.

−	This year's speech listed ~~some~~ 38 new ~~bills being put forward and brought in front of MPs and peers for law~~, a very high number in comparison to previous years. ~~The speech closed with a note towards the Platinum Jubilee and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.~~	+	This year's speech listed 38 new Bills, a very high number in comparison to previous years. Below is prioritised look at the Bills in in terms of their relevance to the construction industry, with a short description of some, followed by comments from leading industry partners.
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−	~~Here~~ is ~~a Designing Buildings,~~ prioritised look at the ~~list of~~ Bills in ~~order~~ of ~~what one might consider as~~ their relevance to the construction industry, with a short description of some, ~~this is~~ followed by comments from leading industry partners.	+

	For a full description of each Bill please visit [https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2022]		For a full description of each Bill please visit [https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2022]

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	Here is a Designing Buildings, prioritised look at the list of Bills in order of what one might consider as their relevance to the construction industry, with a short description of some, this is followed by comments from leading industry partners.		Here is a Designing Buildings, prioritised look at the list of Bills in order of what one might consider as their relevance to the construction industry, with a short description of some, this is followed by comments from leading industry partners.
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		+	For a full description of each Bill please visit [https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2022]

	= Planning and housing =		= Planning and housing =

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	Ensure UK citizens’ personal data is protected to a gold standard while enabling public bodies to share data to improve the delivery of services. Use data and reforming regulations to improve the everyday life for example, by enabling data to be shared more efficiently between public bodies, so that delivery of services can be improved for people. Designing a more flexible, outcomes-focused approach to data protection that helps create a culture of data protection, rather than “tick box” exercises.		Ensure UK citizens’ personal data is protected to a gold standard while enabling public bodies to share data to improve the delivery of services. Use data and reforming regulations to improve the everyday life for example, by enabling data to be shared more efficiently between public bodies, so that delivery of services can be improved for people. Designing a more flexible, outcomes-focused approach to data protection that helps create a culture of data protection, rather than “tick box” exercises.

−	== Education and Non-domestic ==	+	= Education and Non-domestic =

	== Schools Bill ==		== Schools Bill ==

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	* Draft Protect Duty Bill		* Draft Protect Duty Bill
	* Draft Mental Health Act Reform Bill		* Draft Mental Health Act Reform Bill
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		+	= Related articles on Designing Buildings =
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		+	* Queen's Speech 2021.
		+	* Queen's Speech 2019.
		+	* Queen's Speech 2015.
		+	* Affordable housing.
		+	* Aligning net zero with the levelling-up agenda.
		+	* Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
		+	* Government departments responsibility for construction.
		+	* Government publishes UK infrastructure strategy.
		+	* High Speed 2 (HS2).
		+	* Housing minister.
		+	* Infrastructure.
		+	* Land register.
		+	* Levelling up.
		+	* Levelling up the infrastructure agenda.
		+	* Localism Act.
		+	* National Infrastructure Commission.
		+	* National Planning Policy Framework.
		+	* Osborne launches National Infrastructure Commission.
		+	* Planning permission.
		+	*

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