This was a third reading 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
Motion passed
Margin: 217
312
95
Aye (77%)No (23%)
407 of 650 eligible MPs voted (63% turnout)
How each party voted
Who rebelled?
No MPs voted against their party on this division.
What happens next?
The bill has passed this House and will move to the other House for consideration.
