Crime and Policing Bill: Motion relating to Lords Reason 11B

MPs voted 294 to 156 on 20 April 2026 to back the government's revised compromise position on Lords Amendment 11, rejecting the Lords' version and substituting the government's own amendments in lieu. The motion concerned fly-tipping enforcement powers, specifically the circumstances in which vehicle seizure and related measures should be used and whether statutory guidance on the matter should be mandatory or discretionary. It was one of four remaining disputes with the House of Lords on the Crime and Policing Bill, resolved in the same parliamentary session on the same day. The vote clears one of the final obstacles to Royal Assent for the Crime and Policing Bill, a wide-ranging piece of legislation covering anti-social behaviour, retail crime, child protection, and policing powers. On fly-tipping, the Lords had pressed for stronger mandatory requirements; the government's amendments in lieu set out what statutory guidance "may" address, rather than what it must require. Conservative MPs argued that existing vehicle seizure powers for fly-tipping go unused precisely because the legislative framework is too weak, pointing to more than a million fly-tipping incidents recorded annually with only a small fraction resulting in enforcement. The government maintained its wording provides sufficient direction while preserving operational flexibility. Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs voted unanimously in favour, providing the government's majority of 294. Conservatives (89 votes), Liberal Democrats (55 votes), and smaller parties including the Greens and the Democratic Unionist Party voted against, preferring the Lords' stronger language. No significant cross-party rebellion was recorded on either side. The division was one of four on the same evening addressing the bill's final ping-pong exchanges with the Lords, with the government winning each on broadly similar margins.