Pensions at heart of short speech

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Reform of pensions is at the heart of the Government's legislative programme for the coming year, in a Queen's Speech which also offered a limited right for voters to recall misbehaving MPs, support for "fracking" to produce shale gas, and measures to help small businesses.

But Downing Street was forced to fend off Labour accusations that David Cameron is presiding over a "zombie Government", after the Queen unveiled a legislative programme for the coming year featuring just 11 new bills.