A Co-operative Queen's Speech

Protection of Retail Workers Bill

A Bill to give shop workers greater protection against the violence, threats and abuse they face at work.

High Streets and Community Ownership Bill

A Bill to give local communities more control over their town centres, and make sure high streets work for the people who use them.  

Right to Food

A Bill to ensure nobody goes hungry and achieve food justice for everybody.  

Financial Inclusion Bill

A Bill to make sure everybody has access to fair and affordable finance tools, and nobody is left behind in a cashless society.  

Co-operative Development Bill

A Bill to double the size of the co-operative sector and put co-operative businesses at the centre of a fairer and more equitable economy.  

Community Wealth Building Bill

A Bill to encourage community development through local procurement and bottom-up local initiatives.  

Fair Tax Bill

A Bill to level the playing field between local and multinational companies, and make sure that big business pays its fair share of tax by cracking down on tax havens.

Co-operative Green Recovery Bill

A Bill to put the co-operative movement and sustainable community-led initiatives at the heart of a national green recovery and our fight against climate change.

Democratic Corporate Governance Bill

A Bill to democratise corporate governance by giving workers and consumers more of a say in how business is done.

Supporter Ownership Bill

A Bill to give supporters of football clubs more of a stake in how their local clubs are run, and give fans in the wider cultural and arts sectors a greater say in their industries.

Co-operative Housing Bill

A Bill to tackle the housing crisis by reforming the housing sector and expanding the use of co-operative housing initiatives.

Housing Tenure Reform Bill

A Bill to create a new co-operative housing tenure, implement urgent reforms to leasehold, strengthen commonhold tenure and protect leaseholders and renters from the cladding crisis.

New Mutuals Bill

A Bill to prevent demutualisation of member-owned financial businesses, expand the building society sector and allow co-operatives to be banks to widen ownership of our financial services.

Co-operative Childcare Bill

A Bill to create fairer early years provision based on parents, staff and children rather than private profit, ensuring reforms to planning and Ofsted alongside proper funding for the sector enable co-operative models to grow and thrive.

Global Inequality Reduction Bill

A bill to restore Britain’s commitment to fund international development, with an aid policy focused on reducing inequality - creating fairer economies through co-operative development and tackling climate change and its effects.

Votes at 16 Bill

A Bill to widen our franchise to ensure young people have a say and a stake in their future.

Well-being of Future Generations Bill

A Bill learning from best practice in Wales, to ensure public bodies consider the long-term impact of their decisions, and improve the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of the UK.

Fairer Care Bill

A Bill to improve the quality of social care services and the quality of jobs in the sector, through promoting co-operative and community provision and ensuring care users and workers come before company profits.

Secure Employment Bill

A Bill to crack down on those companies that profit from bogus self-employment with a new duty to share profits with workers, and promoting the development of platform co-operatives, for example agency worker, supply teacher and taxi driver co-ops.

Community Connections Bill

A Bill to promote and support community transport and community and co-operative broadband to grow and thrive, ensuring every community has access to good quality affordable internet and public transport.

Equalities and Diversity Bill

A strengthened Bill to build on Labour’s landmark legislation to address the widening socio-economic inequality revealed and exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis - especially addressing racial inequalities and improving access to justice.

Education Accountability Bill

A Bill to ensure student, parent, and local authority voice in decision-making in schools, further and higher education, and replacing Regional Schools Commissioners with democratic, transparent and accountable structures.