ASYLUM: Children of failed asylum seekers taken into care if their parents refuse a flight home. Limits appeal to one hearing.

CHARITIES: New restrictions on professional fundraisers who approach people in the street on behalf of charities.

CHILD PROTECTION: Children's Commissioner for England to champion their rights. Local authorities forced to re-organise the way they run education, health and social services for under-18s.

CHILD TRUST FUNDS: All youngsters born on or after September 1 2002 to receive £250, with children from poorer families receiving £500.

CONSTITUTION: Lord Chancellor abolished and the Lords replaced as the highest court in the land by a Supreme Court. A Judicial Appointments Commission to play a significant role in selecting new judges (see separate report).

CRIME: New measures to improve the way victims are dealt with by the criminal justice system (see separate report).

DEFENCE: Hints of significant manpower cuts in the Armed Forces as "small and medium scale" challenges of the new strategic environment were stressed.

EDUCATION: Universities allowed to treble their fees to £3,000 a year.

EMERGENCIES: Police given wide-ranging new powers in the event of a national emergency (see separate report).

EMPLOYMENT: Workers' rights strengthened including better protection against unfair dismissal.

ENERGY: A Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to clean up nuclear installations.

EURO: Draft Bill lays the grounds for a euro referendum if Chancellor Gordon Brown's five economic tests are met.

FIRE: Firefighters given new duty to promote community fire safety and concentrate on protecting lives (see separate report).

GAMBLING: Outlaws "pyramid cons" and relaxes restrictions on gambling.

GAY 'MARRIAGE'': Civil partnerships recognised through signing an official document at a register office.

HOUSING: Sellers to produce home information packs to speed up house buying.

ID CARDS: Compulsory national identity cards within four years.

LORDS: Removes remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords and establishes an independent Appointments Commission to select non-party members of the Upper House.

ORGANS: Consent made "the fundamental principle underpinning the lawful removal, retention and use of human bodies, body parts, organs and tissue".

PENSIONS: Safety net for members of company pension schemes whose employer goes bust.

SCHOOL RUN: Pupils encouraged to walk or cycle to school in a bid to improve their health as well as cut congestion.

TRANSPORT: Uniformed "jambusters'' operating on major roads and a crackdown on overrunning streetworks (see separate report).

ULSTER: First minister and deputy first minister jointly make recommendations to the Prime Minister on all senior judicial appointments.

Angie Bell