Crime and Policing Bill - Committee (5th Day) – in the House of Lords at 7:30 pm on 9 December 2025.
Baroness Levitt:
Moved by Baroness Levitt
301: Schedule 9, page 278, line 24, leave out sub-paragraph (2)Member’s explanatory statementMy amendments to Schedule 9 paragraph 18 amend section 177DA of the Armed Forces Act to add the provision the Bill currently inserts as section 177DZA. They also provide for images of breastfeeding recorded in circumstances which constitute an offence under section 67A(2B) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to be subject to deprivation orders.
302: Schedule 9, page 278, line 38, at end insert—“(za) in the heading, omit “Purported”;”Member’s explanatory statementSee my Amendment to Schedule 9, page 278, line 24.
303: Schedule 9, page 279, line 1, leave out from “for” to end of line and insert “the words from “section 66E” to the end substitute “a provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which is listed in column 1 of the table in subsection (3)”” Member’s explanatory statementSee my amendment to Schedule 9, page 278, line 24.
304: Schedule 9, page 279, line 1, at end insert—“(aa) in subsection (2)—(i) for “purported intimate image to which the offence relates” substitute “item specified in column 2 of the table in relation to the corresponding offence”;(ii) after “the offence”, in the second place it occurs, insert “under section 42”;”Member’s explanatory statementSee my amendment to Schedule 9, page 278, line 24.
305: Schedule 9, page 279, leave out lines 3 to 12 and insert—“(3) This is the table—Provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003ItemSection 66AA(1), (2) or (3)Photograph or film to which the offence relatesSection 66EPurported intimate image to which the offence relatesSection 66FPurported intimate image which is connected with the offenceSection 67A(2B)Image to which the offence relates”Member’s explanatory statementSee my amendment to Schedule 9, page 278, line 24.
306: Schedule 9, page 279, line 13, at beginning insert “Where the corresponding offence is an offence under section 66F of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,”Member’s explanatory statementSee my amendment to Schedule 9, page 278, line 24.
307: Schedule 9, page 280, line 3, leave out sub-paragraph (2) and insert—“(2) In section 154A (purported intimate images to be treated as used for purposes of certain offences)—(a) in the heading, omit “Purported”;(b) for subsection (1) substitute—“(1) This section applies where a person commits an offence under a provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which is listed in column 1 of the table in subsection (2A).”;(c) in subsection (2), for “The purported intimate image to which the offence relates” substitute “The item specified in column 2 of the table in relation to that offence”;(d) after subsection (2) insert—“(2A) This is the table—Provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003ItemSection 66AA(1), (2) or(3)Photograph or film to which the offence relatesSection 66EPurported intimate image to which the offence relatesSection 66FPurported intimate image which is connected with the offenceSection 67A(2B)Image to which the offence relates”;(e) omit subsections (3) and (4).”Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment amends section 154A of the Sentencing Code to add the provision the Bill currently inserts as section 154ZA. It also provides for images of breastfeeding recorded in circumstances which constitute an offence under section 67A(2B) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to be subject to deprivation orders.
Amendments 301 to 307 agreed.
Schedule 9, as amended, agreed.
Clauses 85 and 86 agreed.
House resumed. Committee to begin again not before 8.24 pm.
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.