Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6

**What happened:** On 14 April 2026, MPs voted by 299 to 169 to reject Lords Amendment 6 to the Crime and Policing Bill. The amendment, passed by the House of Lords, would have introduced stronger powers to tackle fly-tipping. The government opposed the Lords change, and its position carried comfortably. **Why it matters:** Fly-tipping is a persistent problem across England and Wales, with rural landowners and local authorities frequently bearing the cost of clearing illegal waste dumps on their land. Lords Amendment 6 would have given enforcement agencies and affected communities stronger legal tools to pursue those responsible. By voting to reject it, MPs backed the government's existing or alternative approach to the issue, leaving the enhanced enforcement mechanisms the Lords had proposed off the statute book, at least in this form. **The politics:** The vote divided almost entirely along government-versus-opposition lines. All 266 voting Labour MPs and 27 Labour and Co-operative MPs backed the government's position, while Conservatives (89), Liberal Democrats (61), the Democratic Unionist Party (5), Plaid Cymru (3), Reform UK (3), and the Traditional Unionist Voice (1) all voted against. Seven independents also voted no. The three Green MPs who voted backed the government, an unusual alignment given the environmental character of the amendment. The vote sits within a broader pattern of Lords-Commons ping-pong (the process by which the two Houses exchange amendments until agreement is reached) on the Crime and Policing Bill, with several further related divisions following on 20 April 2026.