Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 333

**What happened:** On 14 April 2026, MPs voted by 301 to 157 to reject Lords Amendment 333 to the Crime and Policing Bill. The amendment had been tabled in the House of Lords by Baroness Buscombe, and the government brought a motion to disagree with it. The House of Commons passed that motion, effectively removing the Lords amendment from the Bill. **Why it matters:** Lords Amendment 333 represented a change to the Crime and Policing Bill that the government argued was unworkable or inappropriate. By rejecting it, MPs sided with ministers and kept the Bill closer to the government's original intentions on crime and policing reform. Critics of the rejection argued the amendment contained important civil liberties protections and that the speed of the process denied Parliament adequate time to scrutinise a significant change to the relationship between the state and individuals. **The politics:** The division followed strict party lines. All 243 Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs present voted with the government, alongside most independents supporting the government side and small parties including Plaid Cymru and the Greens. All 89 Conservative MPs who voted sided against the government, as did all 61 Liberal Democrats present and the Democratic Unionist Party. There were no Labour rebels. The vote sits within a prolonged legislative back-and-forth between the Commons and Lords over the Crime and Policing Bill, with several further related divisions taking place on 20 April 2026.