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Queen's Speech 2015: housing and devolution Bills to the fore

Plans to give cities greater economic powers and a controversial extension of the Right to Buy scheme to 1.3 million social housing tenants will be among Bills set out today in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996.

Plans to give cities greater economic powers and a controversial extension of the Right to Buy scheme to 1.3 million social housing tenants will be among Bills set out today in the first Conservative Queen's Speech since 1996.

The Queen's Speech, which forms the centrepiece of the state opening of Parliament, is due to take place at 11.30 am today.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the speech would ‘set out a clear vision for what our country can be'.

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