Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 88

What was this vote about?

This was a amendment on the Crime and Policing Bill. The Crime and Policing Bill seeks to strengthen laws on anti-social behaviour, weapons, offences against people (including sexual offences), and policing powers, while also embedding reforms around online safety, data use, and global crime matters. As it moves through Parliament, Lords amendments have added far-reaching measures—especially on online platforms, safeguarding, and the use of confiscated assets—alongside debates about age thresholds, safeguarding for young people, and devolved powers.

• •- Strengthened offences and police powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, weapon offences, and crimes against individuals, with attention to safeguarding and youth diversion.
• •- Major Lords amendments introduce online safety duties for platforms (including removal of intimate image content within 48 hours), expanded data and AI governance, and new ways to use confiscated assets to fund public-interest causes.
• •- Proposals on safeguarding and pregnancy/abortion matters (e.g., in-person safeguarding for under-18 abortions, consent processes) and potential raise of age-related thresholds for criminal responsibility.
• •- Measures affecting victims and the use of proceeds from crime: creation of public-interest compensation orders tied to asset confiscation and new offences linked to modern slavery act protections.

The result

491 of 650 eligible MPs voted (76% turnout)

How each party voted

Who rebelled?(5 MPs)

Turnout by party

What happens next?

The bill continues through its current stage with the amendment applied (or rejected).

Current stage: Consideration of Lords amendments