Policy Brief: Crime and Policing Bill Lords Report Stage
The Crime and Policing Bill has swiftly moved through the policy process, moving past the committee stage at the lords, now standing at the report stage. A huge number of 3260 amendments have been proposed for this Bill, representing its great interest among parliament, recognising the impact it will have on community safety, social cohesion and anti-social behaviour. The report stage is a chance for lords to debate amendments and clauses in more detail, and as such, various new amendments have been debated, agreed to, and not moved. The report stage usually starts 14 days after committee stage has concluded and can be spread over several days, it is generally shorter than the committee stage. To recap, before report stage begins, amendments are gathered together and placed in order, then published in the ‘marshalled list’, after report stage, the bill is reprinted to include all the agreed amendments. The bill then moves to third reading, a further chance for Lords to discuss and amend the bill as it nears conclusion and royal assent.
The Lords’ Committee stage , commencing on the 19th of June 2025, included 810 amendments, with 207 selected for discussion, focusing on ASB and related enforcement provisions. We commented previously on some of the key amendments here, including some key proposals to amendments of respect orders and other key provisions. So far at the report stage, they have had 304 amendments agreed: 2 back bench amendments, 3 opposition amendments, and 255 were government amendments. 559 amendments have been tabled at this bill stage. Of the government’s 328 amendments at this stage, 284 have passed.
Of the oppositions 80 amendments, 9 have passed, and of the backbenches’ 161 amendments, 11 have passed. This represents not only the government’s parliamentary majority, but also how much this piece of legislation is to their policy platform. Six days of report stage for the Crime and Policing Bill were scheduled, with the last one being on the 18th of March. These days are as follows:
- Wednesday 25 February
- Monday 2 March
- Wednesday 4 March
- Monday 9 March
- Wednesday 11 March
- Wednesday 18 March
The bill has a large, broad scope, which aims to achieve a plethora of policy objectives. We will recap the bill’s main provisions:
Respect Orders for Anti-social Behaviour.
The Bill amends the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to introduce respect orders, allowing courts to prohibit or require actions from individuals aged 18 or over to prevent anti-social conduct.
- Respect orders can be made against adults if the court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities of anti-social behaviour.
- Orders may specify prohibitions or requirements, specify duration, and be made only on application by relevant authorities.
- Orders can exclude individuals from their homes if there is violence or risk of harm, with specific conditions and application procedures.
- Orders include supervision requirements, activity participation, and breach warnings, with offences for breaches liable to imprisonment or fines.
- Breach offences require warnings within 12 months, with penalties up to 2 years imprisonment or fines.
Youth and Housing Injunctions Amendments
The Bill limits injunction powers to persons aged 10 or over (under 18) and extends them to adults for conduct causing nuisance or annoyance related to housing.
- Injunctions can be granted against minors and adults to prevent nuisance or disorder.
- Amendments specify that injunctions granted before the commencement are unaffected.
- The Bill introduces consequential amendments to other Acts regarding injunctions and related procedures.
Enforcement Powers and Procedural Changes
The Bill increases maximum durations for exclusion directions, closure notices, and temporary orders from 48 to 72 hours.
- Police officers of at least inspector rank must review exclusion directions exceeding 48 hours.
- Fixed penalty notices for anti-social behaviour offences are increased from £100 to £500.
- Powers of seizure of vehicles causing alarm or distress are simplified by removing warning requirements.
- Local authorities and police are mandated to review responses to anti-social behaviour and publish related data.
Data Sharing and Information Provision
The Bill enables the Secretary of State to require authorities to provide anti-social behaviour data, including reports, responses, and case reviews.
- Regulations may specify data collection, retention, and reporting intervals.
- Data protection legislation overrides are clarified, removing unnecessary provisions.
- Authorities are encouraged to promote awareness of anti-social behaviour reviews and procedures.
Additional Provisions and Guidance
The Bill includes provisions for special measures for vulnerable witnesses, guidance issuance by the Secretary of State, and amendments to existing enforcement and procedural frameworks.
- Guidance on fly-tipping enforcement in England is introduced.
- Amendments clarify the scope of relevant authorities and data protection considerations.
- The Bill aims to streamline anti-social behaviour management and improve community safety enforcement.
Key Amendments and New Clauses
56 new clauses have been proposed, most of these clauses are surrounding the sale of knives, child sexual abuse, and honour-based abuse. We will highlight some of the key amendments that have been agreed whether they were opposition, government or backbench, and what this means.
Opposition Amendment 7
This amendment was AGREED TO ON DIVISION
Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment seeks to ensure that any accredited or authorised person, and their employer, may not profit financially from the issuing of fixed penalty notices.
Government Amendment 66
This amendment was AGREED TO
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Minister of State (Home Office)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment, together with other amendments to this inserted section, ensures that all contractors in the delivery chain are responsible for marking packages containing bladed products that are to be delivered to collection points as needing age and ID verification.
Government Amendment 4
This amendment was AGREED TO
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Minister of State (Home Office)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment adds a consultation requirement to section M1, inserted into the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 by clause 1 of the Bill.
Government Amendment 383
This amendment was AGREED
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Minister of State (Home Office)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment repeals sections 60 and 61 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
Sections 50 and 61 of the Act, mandate a statutory code of practice for police recording of non-criminal hate incidents. These provisions are principally focused on privacy, protecting freedom of expression, and regulating data retention.
Government Amendment 340
This amendment was AGREED
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Minister of State (Home Office)
Member's explanatory statement
This new clause defines “honour-based abuse” for the purposes of my new clause (Guidance about honour-based abuse), inserted after clause 121.
Government Amendment 334
This amendment was AGREED
Signatures: 1
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Minister of State (Home Office)
Member's explanatory statement
This new clause expands the grounds on which offences may be aggravated under sections 28 to 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (racial and religious hostility) to include hostility related to disability, sexual orientation, transgender identity and (except for section 31(1)(b)) sex. It also makes consequential amendments.
Government Amendment 11
This amendment was AGREED TO
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Minister of State (Home Office)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment to section 105A of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (inserted by clause 7 of the Bill) allows pre-commencement consultation to satisfy the requirement on the Secretary of State to consult on regulations about information about anti-social behaviour.
This will ultimately mean that consultations will proceed before the Secretary of State, to require agencies to report ASB data to the Home Office. Perhaps this will be in part a relief for some members, who feel that operational capacity and administrative capability are items that are needed to be considered.
Amendment 387A
This amendment was AGREED
Type: Backbencher
Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would extend the period in which the police and the magistrates’ courts may make closure notices and closure orders, to 7 days and 12 months respectively.
This will significantly extend the legal durations for this order under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, to give authorities and agencies more time to investigate and ultimately disrupt criminal activity at specific premises. Therefore closure notes are increased from 48 hours to 7 days. Initial closure orders, the maximum period for which a magistrates’ court can initially make a closure order is extended from 3 months to 12 months. The period for which an existing order can be extended by a court is increased from 3 months to 12 months.
New subsection (8) allows an order to be extended for additional 12-month periods indefinitely, removing the previous maximum cumulative duration (which was formerly 6 months).
Baroness Buscombe argued that existing limits often “tied the hands” of the police, and that these extensions are necessary to “pin these criminals down”.
Amendments Not Moved
Amendment 5
This amendment was NOT MOVED
Clause 1, page 10, line 12, leave out “non-profit private”
Type: Backbencher
Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Member's explanatory statement
This clause would ensure that all types of social housing providers, including those for profit, would be granted the same new powers intended for housing providers.
We know that some members, particularly those of a for profit character, would be disappointment that this amendment was not moved. Despite the financial structure being different, the difficulties are still the same, and so we would, as we have done in our response the Crime and Policing Call for Evidence, advocate for amendments such as these to be moved.
Amendment 24
This amendment was NOT MOVED
Type: Backbencher
Signatures: 1
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Member's explanatory statement
This new clause requires the Home Office to publish quarterly data on the issuing of anti-social behaviour orders etc, including the number of occasions when stop and search has been used by the police prior to issuing anti-social behaviour orders etc and the protected characteristics of those who have been issued with orders and injunctions.
Opposition Amendment 2
This amendment was NOT MOVED
Type: Opposition
Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Policing)
Member's explanatory statement
Many council areas have agreed that final approval for similar anti-social behaviour measures, such as public space protection orders, should be undertaken at Full Council level. This amendment is intended to add similar political accountability, scrutiny and sign-off for respect orders.
Opposition Amendment 12
This amendment was NOT MOVED
Type: Opposition
Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Science, Innovation and Technology)
Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) - 23 Feb 2026
Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Policing)
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment requires the Secretary of State to lay an annual report before Parliament on anti-social behaviour.
Conclusion
The Crime and Policing Bill continues to move through the policy process, and continues to be amended, providing profound implications for the operational reality for many in housing, policing and other agencies dealing with community safety and anti-social behaviour. Amendments from the committee stage, including 4, 5, 7 and 15 were not moved, these were acknowledged but not pursued. Amendments are often used to probe into the government’s position and to signal future strategy. In particular, Amendment 15 at this stage was moved and debated, but not voted on to be included within the Bill. This shows some policy concern around ex-parte without notice powers, and the government’s response seems to indicate the intent to retain strong interim order power. Amendment 5, that covered ‘necessary and proportionate threshold’ did return as ‘amendment 1’ but was vote on and then defeated.
From the amendments agreed upon at Report stage of particular note are: Amendment 387A, Government Amendment 1 and Government Amendment 4.
This signals that consultations will commence in order for the sufficient application of the provisions included within the Bill, in order to ensure a painless transition. We know that guidance around Respect Orders, particularly with the elimination of the pilot, and the data requirement, can prove to be cumbersome for members to get around and therefore implement changes to practice. Indeed, the extension of closure powers is, of course, always pertinent.
We will of course continue to keep members updated as the Crime and Policing Bill proceeds through parliament, and before royal assent and its commencement date.
If a member has a concern, or comment, on any amendment proposed at this stage, or any general questions about the Crime and Policing Bill, please contact:
Harrison Box, Policy Officer
