Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 11

MPs voted on 14 April 2026 to reject Lords amendment 11 to the Crime and Policing Bill, which related to fly-tipping and littering enforcement. The government moved to disagree with the amendment, and the House backed that position by 291 votes to 174. The Bill is described as the largest criminal justice legislation in a generation, and this vote was one of several taken on the same day concerning Lords amendments across a wide range of issues. The practical effect of rejecting Lords amendment 11 is that the specific fly-tipping or littering enforcement measure the Lords had inserted will not form part of the Act as the government preferred. The government's position, as indicated in the debate, was not that fly-tipping enforcement should be ignored but that its own alternative provisions were sufficient. Ministers pointed to separate measures on fly-tipping already incorporated elsewhere, including a provision giving courts the power to issue penalty points to offenders who use vehicles to dump waste, which appeared in the government's response to a related amendment. The Lords amendment 11 itself was rejected without a government substitute offered in its place. Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs voted unanimously in favour of the government's motion, providing all 287 votes on the winning side, with three independents also voting aye. All 91 Conservative MPs who voted opposed the government, alongside all 61 Liberal Democrats who voted, all five Democratic Unionist Party members, all four Green MPs, all three Plaid Cymru members, all three Reform UK members who voted, and two Your Party MPs. Conservative MP Wendy Morton spoke in the debate to urge ministers to accept amendments 6, 10, and 11, citing fly-tipping as a persistent issue raised by constituents across the country.