Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 160

Parliament voted on Amendment 160 to the Crime and Policing Bill during its Report Stage on 17 June 2025. The amendment was defeated by a large margin, with 89 votes in favour and 428 against. The Bill itself is a wide-ranging piece of legislation covering policing powers, criminal justice measures, and various offences.

The amendment attracted support from a left-leaning position, broadly aligned with criminal justice reform and civil liberties concerns. The government opposed it, as did the vast majority of Labour MPs and almost all Conservatives who voted. The scale of the defeat, with fewer than one in six MPs voting in favour, reflects how little cross-party appetite there was for the specific changes proposed.

The Liberal Democrats provided the overwhelming bulk of the Aye votes, with 68 of their 72 voting members supporting the amendment. The Democratic Unionist Party, Plaid Cymru, and the Green Party each voted unanimously in favour, as did four Reform UK members. Only one Labour MP and one Conservative MP broke with their parties to vote Aye, making rebel numbers negligible on both sides. The vote sits within a broader Report Stage debate that covered an exceptionally wide range of proposed changes to the Bill, from prostitution law reform and e-bike regulation to joint enterprise, knife safety, and Gypsy and Traveller encampment powers.