Five of the Bills announced yesterday will need the agreement of MSPs at Holyrood before they can come into force in Scotland, the Nationalist government in Edinburgh said last night.

Scottish ministers said that they would be bringing forward legislative consent motions - also known as Sewel motions, after the Labour peer who devised the scheme before devolution - to put the measures into effect north of the border.

The five pieces of legislation that will require a Sewel motion at Holyrood include the banning of criminals from profiting from their memoirs and the closing of a loophole so that banning orders on football supporters handed out by courts in England also apply in Scotland. The cross-border gap in the law was highlighted after the disorder in Manchester last May when Rangers played Zenit St Petersburg in the Uefa Cup final.

Other Bills requiring Sewel motions include the Equality Bill, which extends to Scotland by allowing ministers in Scotland to impose duties on public sector bodies to make sure they address discrimination by age, religion or sexual orientation.

MSPs will also be required to agree to the Local Democracy, Economic Regeneration and Construction Bill, which includes Scotland in amendments to new construction contracts legislation, ensuring consistency across the UK, opening up contracts that are not in writing to adjudication, thus removing administration costs for many companies. Some of these initiatives were asked for by ministers at Holyrood.

The Marine and Coastal Access Bill will also come before Holyrood because it introduces measures to ensure the sustainable development of the marine environment around Scotland and gives an enhanced role to the Scottish government to address issues exclusive to Scottish waters.

However, while these Bills are largely non-contentious, welfare groups in Scotland were outraged at the plans outlined in the Welfare Reform Bill to make the long-term unemployed throughout the UK start training courses or face benefit cuts.

John Dickie, the head of the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, said that any reform needed to treat people with dignity, lift them out of poverty, be adequately resourced and fit with devolved policy on skills and childcare. Mr Dickie said: “The current proposals fail on all four counts and treat people in a punitive and undignified manner.”

The SNP said that instead of offering hard-pressed families a helping hand, Gordon Brown was “pushing parents out the door to work”. They branded the welfare reform measures as “half-baked and draconian” because the economic climate in the country had changed since the proposals were first mooted in July.

Iain Gray, the Scottish Labour leader at Holyrood, said the programme showed that Westminster was doing more for Scotland than Alex Salmond's “do-nothing government”. He added: “The Queen's Speech highlights the SNP complacency and inactivity. There are only eight Bills at the Scottish Parliament and one of these is a Labour Party Bill, one from the Green Party and another deals with MSPs' pensions. That leaves only five substantive Bills.”

The renewed commitment in the Queen's Speech to eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020 was welcomed by Douglas Hamilton, the head of Save the Children in Scotland.

He added that while the Bill promised that ending the suffering of millions of children would receive the backing of the law, the devil was in the detail. “The Government must make sure this isn't an empty gesture,” added Mr Hamilton. “To end child poverty in Scotland, this legislation will need to complement action by the Scottish government and Scottish local authorities. The UK Government has shown that it is prepared to up its game to achieve this goal. We expect the Scottish government to be equally ambitious.”

Charities say that about 250,000 Scots children, one in four, are living below the poverty line in Scotland.

Jim Murphy, the Scottish Secretary, said that the Queen's Speech was “the most Scottish” since devolution began, adding that the Bills had “a real bearing on the lives of people across Scotland and the UK”.

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