Crime and Policing Bill: motion to agree with all remaining Lords Amendments

What happened: On 14 April 2026, MPs voted 247 to 21 to accept a package of remaining Lords amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill, completing the parliamentary passage of one of the largest criminal justice bills in a generation. The vote finalised a set of changes negotiated between the Commons and the Lords, including some Lords amendments the government accepted, some it rejected outright, and others it replaced with alternative provisions of its own.

Why it matters: The Crime and Policing Bill covers a wide range of policing and criminal justice measures, from knife crime and antisocial behaviour to online harms, non-consensual intimate images, terrorism glorification, and protest conditions. The Lords amendments that were accepted or replaced in this final vote include new requirements on tech platforms to remove non-consensual intimate imagery, powers to extend Online Safety Act regulation to AI chatbots, changes to how police consider cumulative disruption when imposing conditions on protests, and provisions on automatic pardons for women previously convicted in relation to their own pregnancy. These changes affect the public, law enforcement agencies, technology companies, and civil society.

The politics: The vote was overwhelmingly carried, with Labour MPs providing the bulk of the 247 ayes. The 21 votes against came mainly from Labour rebels alongside Plaid Cymru members and a handful of independents, motivated chiefly by concerns about civil liberties, including freedom of expression, religion, and the right to protest. The Conservatives were entirely absent from the vote. A notable flashpoint was Lords amendment 312, on so-called cumulative disruption powers for police at protests, which several Labour backbenchers objected to both on substance and because they argued it was not given a separate debate and vote. The broader legislative context saw multiple separate divisions on the same day, with the government winning each comfortably, as it pushed to conclude the bill's passage.