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Bills · Government Bill · 2024-26

Crime and Policing Act 2026: stages, votes and documents

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, 428 days after its first reading in the House of Commons on 25 February 2025. MPs divided on it 27 times between 17 June 2025 and 22 April 2026; the narrowest margin was 110 (motion to insist on Amendments 439C and 439D and disagree with Lords Amendments 439E and 439F).

Stages taken place
23
Commons divisions
27
Documents listed
32
Royal Assent
29 April 2026

What the bill is for

The long title reads:

A Bill to make provision about anti-social behaviour, offensive weapons, offences against people (including sexual offences), property offences, the criminal exploitation of persons, sex offenders, stalking and public order; to make provision about powers of the police, the border force and other similar persons; to make provision about confiscation; to make provision about the police; to make provision about terrorism and national security, and about international agreements relating to crime; to make provision about the criminal liability of bodies; and for connected purposes.

Sponsors

Stages

StageHouseSittings
1st readingCommons25 February 2025
2nd readingCommons10 March 2025
Programme motionCommons10 March 2025
Committee stageCommons27 March 2025, 1 April 2025, 3 April 2025, 8 April 2025, 24 April 2025, 29 April 2025, 8 May 2025, 13 May 2025
Ways and Means resolutionCommons30 April 2025
Programme motionCommons17 June 2025
Report stageCommons17 June 2025, 18 June 2025
3rd readingCommons18 June 2025
1st readingLords19 June 2025
2nd readingLords16 October 2025
Committee stageLords10 November 2025, 17 November 2025, 19 November 2025, 27 November 2025, 9 December 2025, 15 December 2025, 17 December 2025, 7 January 2026, 13 January 2026, 15 January 2026, 20 January 2026, 22 January 2026, 27 January 2026, 2 February 2026, 5 February 2026
Report stageLords25 February 2026, 2 March 2026, 4 March 2026, 9 March 2026, 11 March 2026, 18 March 2026
3rd readingLords25 March 2026
Money resolutionCommons14 April 2026
Ways and Means resolutionCommons14 April 2026
Programme motionCommons14 April 2026
Consideration of Lords amendmentsCommons14 April 2026
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasonsLords16 April 2026
Consideration of Lords messageCommons20 April 2026
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasonsLords22 April 2026
Consideration of Lords messageCommons22 April 2026
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasonsLords27 April 2026
Royal AssentUnassigned29 April 2026

Commons divisions on this bill

DateDivisionAyesNoes
17 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 174194335
17 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 175184336
17 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19189328
17 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 16089428
17 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1379137
17 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 106117379
18 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7102390
18 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43147305
18 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 88178313
18 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 121114310
18 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 130178313
18 June 2025Crime and Policing Bill: Third Reading31295
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2307176
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6299169
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 11291174
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 311300101
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 333301157
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 33435690
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 34228170
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 35727873
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 359277158
14 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to agree with all remaining Lords Amendments24721
20 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: Amendment (a) to Amendment 2B and Amendment (b) to Amendment 2C in lieu of Lords Amendments 2D and 2E293159
20 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: Amendments (a) to (d) in lieu of Lords Amendment 11294156
20 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: Amendments (a) and (b) in lieu of Lords Amendment 34229461
20 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: Amendments (a) to (b) in lieu of Lords Amendments 359 and 439292158
22 April 2026Crime and Policing Bill: motion to insist on Amendments 439C and 439D and disagree with Lords Amendments 439E and 439F253143

Documents

Act of Parliament

Bill

Explanatory Notes

Impact Assessments

Delegated Powers Memorandum

Briefing papers

Official record

Sources

RecordReadSHA-256
Bills API: bill26 October 202612180ab46a4a7953…
Bills API: stages26 October 2026f23c3309cbe3078f…
Bills API: publications15 October 20267b7a501854997a3d…

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