Quick Guide to the Queen's Speech

Parents and school pupils will be told exactly what they have a right to expect from schools - and gain the right to take schools to court if they are failing to deliver.

The Children, Schools and Families Bill will allow them to complain to the head, then to the local authority, then to the Local Government Ombudsman and finally, if they are still not satisfied, to take a school to court in the form of a judicial review. The Association of School and College Leaders complained today that the Bill will become a "whingers' charter", encouraging litigious parents to complain.

A Financial Services Bill will hand new powers to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) designed to curb unreasonable bonuses, allowing it to void banker contracts and banks those that continue to offer unjustifiable sums.

The Government is once again promising to make parents of anti-social teenagers take responsibility for their child's behaviour. A new Crime and Security Bill will will encourage courts to impose parenting orders, which force parents to attend counselling or guidance sessions, when a child receives an ASBO.

Police will gain the power to evict people accused of domestic violence from their homes temporarily, even if they are not charged with any offence, "empowering victims to feel safe in their homes" according to the Government.

It will become a criminal offence to possess a mobile phone in prison, following reports that illicit mobile phones are common in Britain's jails. More than 300 illicit mobile phones and SIM cards were seized from inmates in Birmingham Prison last year, according to Government figures.

Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom will gain the power to appoint and fund "independently funded news consortia". These are partnerships of broadcasters, newspapers and bloggers, and the government is introducing the measure in an effort to stem the decline of regional media.

Culture minister Sion Simon (Lab Erdington), a Birmingham MP, is helping to oversee the policy. Ministers are expected to announce next month that he first consortia will be Scotland, Wales and North West England.

The Queen's Speech included a commitment to respond to the report setting out options for building a high speed rail line which will be published by the High Speed Two company in December.

The Government will press ahead with its Equality Bill, which includes measures to equalise pay between men and women.

Public bodies will be obliged to publish reports revealing average pay for men and women, so that disparities are easy to spot, and private businesses with more than 250 staff will be encouraged to do the same - with the threat of new legislation if the private sector fails to comply.

A new Child Poverty Bill is one of the most blatant "political" bills in the Queen's Speech. It will set out a target of eradicating child poverty by 2020, and require government to draw up a new "child poverty strategy" every three years. However, government frequently publishes strategies without requiring legislation to do so, and the Bill is really a statement of intent designed to highlight Labour's commitment to reducing poverty.

There is a victory for campaigners such as John Spellar (Lab Warley), who had demanded better rights for agency workers. They will receive the same employment rights as permanent staff if they are employed for more than 12 weeks in the same job.

Wheel clampers will be more strictly regulated to discourage "cowboy clampers" who target motorists unfairly, again dealing with an issue raised by a number of MPs.

The Government will once again press forward with creating an elected House of Lords - perhaps completing the reforms of the Lords it promised in its 1997 manifesto. Peers will also be allowed to resign and disclaim their peerage, allowing them to stand for election to the House of Commons.

This has led to questions about Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, currently Lord Mandelson, and whether he might become an MP once again, allwoing him to stand for the Labour leadership. Questioned this morning, he said he had "no present plan" to return to the Commons.

As widely trailed, a Personal Care at Home Bill will guarantee free personal care at home for up to 280,000 elderly and disabled people with the highest needs - although 166,000 do already receive free care. It's unclear why legislation is needed to increase the number of people receiving care.