Queen's Speech: Immigration rules 'to be tougher'
The government is expected to announce tougher immigration rules as part of its programme for the next year.
The Queen's Speech will include a parliamentary bill aimed at making it easier to deport foreign criminals and those who enter the UK illegally.
Other bills will cap social care costs in England and introduce a single state pension of £144 a week.
Prime Minister David Cameron will then set out the proposals in detail in the Commons, beginning at 14:30 BST.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC while the government would not be publishing the full set of 15 bills, it would set out the main problems it wanted to address.
'Clamping down' After the government's repeated setbacks in its efforts to deport the radical cleric Abu Qatada, an immigration bill will be announced, allowing foreign criminals to be deported more easily, as well as people who are in the UK illegally.
If passed, it would also ensure illegal immigrants cannot get driving licences, and change the rules so private landlords have to check their tenants' immigration status.
Businesses that use illegal foreign labour would face bigger fines.
The Queen, who speaks on behalf of the government during the ceremony, is expected to say: "We want to attract people who will add to our national life, and those who will not should be deterred."
She will add that the bill "will further reform the immigration system by tightening immigration law, strengthening our enforcement powers and clamping down on those from overseas who abuse our public services".
Mr Hunt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government wanted to tackle the abuse of the visa system and change the pull factors which bring people to this country, such as free healthcare.
"If people who aren't entitled to free NHS care use the NHS, that's fine, as long as they pay for it," he said. "The pull factors are very important if we are to deter people from coming here in the first place."
The immigration bill's publication comes the week after the success of the UK Independence Party, which campaigns to cut net migration, in last week's local elections in England.
The Queen's Speech, which was written before the local elections, will also put forward a bill to introduce a single weekly state pension of £144 per week, which will replace the current pension of £107 plus means-tested top-ups.
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