Queens speech to set out coalition plans for government.

Tuesday 25 May 10

David Cameron's coalition government will outline its plans for the next 18 months when the Queen's Speech is delivered later today.

The Queen, as Head of State, carries out the duty of formally opening each new session of Parliament. In her speech she will give an over view of the new governments plans for the session.

The Queen's Speech, outlining the government's legislative priorities for the year ahead, is expected to contain up to 21 bills and comes a day after the government revealed the details of plans to cut £6.2bn in spending this year.

Measures are set to include the repeal of ID cards, powers for parents to set up schools, reforms to policing and a referendum on the voting system. The programme will reflect compromises reached by the Conservatives and Lib Dems when they agreed to share power.

The Liberal Democrat leader told BBC Breakfast: ''We want to give people more control over their schools, over their hospitals, over their police, over their politicians.

''So what you will see in the Queen's Speech today, I think, is something remarkably new, which is not only that it has been created by a coalition Government, but that - unlike previous Queen's Speeches which is all about governments grabbing more power for themselves and Whitehall - we are actually wanting to give people and families and pupils and parents and patients more say about how they run their lives.''