Crime and Policing Bill at Report Stage

The Crime and Policing Bill 2025 was introduced in the House of Commons on 25 February 2025 and proposes a major expansion of corporate criminal liability in the UK. A key proposed change to note would extend the “senior manager” test of corporate criminal attribution to all criminal offences.

This means corporate liability could potentially arise from environmental offences, data protection violations, computer misuse, modern slavery, human trafficking, health and safety breaches, and even sexual offences, harassment and violent crime.

There is no timescale set out at present stating when the provisions could be introduced but the report stage in the House of Lords is in progress as of March 2026.