Impact assessment

Crime and Policing Bill 2025: equality impact assessments

Equality impact assessments relating to the Crime and Policing Bill 2025.

• From: Home Office and Ministry of Justice
• Published: 2 December 2025
• Last updated: 29 April 2026
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  1. 29 April 2026

     Updated to reflect enactment of the bill.

  2. 4 December 2025

     Addition of EIAs relating to: coerced internal concealment; critical police undertakings; extradition; schedule 4 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015; public order measures; extraction of online information following seizure of electronic devices; age verification for the sale and delivery or knives, and mandatory reporting of bulk sales of knives; age verification measure for the online sale of crossbows.

  3. 2 December 2025

     First published.

Documents

Equalities impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill age verification measure for the online sale of crossbows

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill age verification for the sale and delivery or knives, and mandatory reporting of bulk sales of knives

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill antisocial behaviour, knife and retail crime measures

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill child sexual abuse and violence against women and girls measures

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill coerced internal concealment offence

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Equality impact assessment: counter-terrorism and national security measures

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill critical police undertakings

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill dangerous and careless cycling offences

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill extraction of online information following seizure of electronic devices

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill extradition

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill policing measures

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill public order measures

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill schedule 4 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015

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Equality impact assessment: Crime and Policing Bill serious and economic crime

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Details

Equality impact assessments (EIA) relating to the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 which was introduced in the House of Commons on 25 February 2025.

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The Crime and Policing Bill 2025 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026 and is now the Crime and Policing Act 2026.