According to the GOV.UK ministerial correspondence page, the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 has now completed its parliamentary passage. The Home Office and Ministry of Justice updated the page on 29 April 2026 to state that the Bill received Royal Assent that day and is now the Crime and Policing Act 2026. (gov.uk)
The page has value beyond that administrative update. First published on 27 March 2025, it brings together the letters ministers used to set out government amendments as the legislation moved through scrutiny, giving readers a dated record of how official drafting changed between stages. The same page states that the Bill had been introduced in the House of Commons on 25 February 2025. (gov.uk)
The document trail is extensive. GOV.UK lists Commons committee-stage letters from Minister Johnson and Ministers Johnson and Davies-Jones, a report-stage letter to Matt Vickers MP dated 10 June 2025, and a sequence of Lords-stage letters from Lord Hanson of Flint and Baroness Levitt to Lord Davies, ending with a Third Reading letter dated 20 March 2026. (gov.uk)
UK Parliament’s Bill page now presents the measure as the Crime and Policing Act 2026. It records the legislation as a Government Bill originating in the House of Commons in session 2024–26, with Commons, Lords and final stages complete and Royal Assent reached by 29 April 2026. (bills.parliament.uk)
On GOV.UK, the enacted statute now sits within a broader Crime and Policing Act 2026 collection. That collection groups the ministerial correspondence alongside factsheets, impact assessments, ECHR memoranda, Keeling Schedules and delegated powers memoranda. For readers trying to interpret the Act, it brings the government’s supporting policy material into one place. (gov.uk)
The Act itself is wide in scope. UK Parliament’s long title says it makes provision on anti-social behaviour, offensive weapons, offences against the person, property offences, the criminal exploitation of persons, sex offenders, public order, police powers, terrorism and national security, among other connected matters. (bills.parliament.uk)
The GOV.UK collection’s own summary shows the practical reach of the new law, including respect orders, a specific offence of assaulting a retail worker, repeal of section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, expanded drug testing on arrest, and new powers to search premises without a warrant for tracked stolen goods. In practical terms, the amendment page now functions as legislative history for an enacted statute rather than a tracker for a live Bill. (gov.uk)