FACTBOX - Government's legislative programme

(Reuters) - Out-of-favour Labour has put financial and fiscal reforms at the heart of its latest legislative agenda, attempting to engineer a political recovery before an election due by June 2010.

With Labour well behind in opinion polls to the Conservatives after 12 years in power, the programme reaches out to middleground voters with a promise of free care, education guarantees and a crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

Below is an outline of the agenda:

FINANCIAL SERVICES BILL

- Creates a Council for Financial Stability with Treasury, an empowered Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England. Treasury to publish quarterly minutes of meetings.

- Tougher rules for bankers' pay, pushing through reforms agreed at G20 meetings. Greater disclosure of pay and powers for FSA to void contracts that encourage risky behaviour.

- Systemically important firms must establish "living wills" to make them safer to wind down in any future crisis.

- New money guidance service and consumer advice agency, paid for by the banks and administered by the FSA.

- Enables groups of consumers to sue over the misselling of financial products. More powers for the FSA to demand redress.

- Bans the sending of blank credit card cheques to homes.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY BILL

- Enshrines in law Labour's plan to halve deficit over four years and enables parliament to approve multi-year fiscal plans. More details to come in the prebudget report on December 9.

SOCIAL CARE, EDUCATION AND CRIME BILLS

- Free care at home for about 280,000 with highest needs

- Pledge to create a National Care Service

- Education guarantees for parents and pupils

- Drive to tackle domestic violence, anti-social behaviour

- Powers to indefinitely keep DNA records of offenders, six year limit on adults arrested but not charged.

- New bribery law, including offences such as bribing a foreign public official to get business.

- Measures for positive descrimination to boost diversity.

- Enshrine in law a commitment to end child poverty by 2020.

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

- Aims to rebuild trust in parliament after the expenses scandal with measures including powers for the upper house to expel members and more freedom to protest around parliament.

- Proposals for an 80-100 percent elected upper house.

DIGITAL ECONOMY AND ENERGY BILLS

- Focus on internet copyright laws, review of communications infrastructure every two years, mobile and broadband spectrum modernisation and digital switchover for radio in 2015.

- Energy support schemes for poorer households, clamp down on exploitation of constraints in electricity supply.

- Plans for up to four carbon capture storage trial projects.

HIGH SPEED RAIL SERVICES

- Government aims to respond in early 2010 to report into two possible high speed rail links from London to the north.

INTERNATIONAL AID, MUNITIONS

- Draft bill to ensure government spends 0.7 percent of gross national income on international development from 2013.

- Pave way for UK ratification of international agreements banning use, production and transfer of cluster munitions.

(Reporting by Matt Falloon and Keith Weir)