Policing and crime: this week in Parliament and GOV.UK

Week of Monday 26 October 2026 to Sunday 1 November 2026. Updated automatically every Monday from Policy Radar's archive of official sources; next update Monday 9 November 2026.

This week at a glance

Debates, statements and motions

• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (Specified Purposes Related to Policing) Regulations 2026

  Debate · Wed 28 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

• Draft Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (Specified Purposes Related to Policing) Regulations 2026

  Debate · Wed 28 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

• First Minister's Question Time: Police Numbers

  Scottish Parliament · Meeting of the Parliament · Tue 27 Oct · parliament.scot

• Local Policing

  Debate · Mon 26 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

• Police Funding Formula

  Debate · Mon 26 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

• Antisocial Behaviour

  Debate, 2 items · Mon 26 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

• Knife Crime

  Debate · Mon 26 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

• Illegal Use of Electric Bikes and Scooters: Policing

  Debate · Mon 26 Oct · hansard.parliament.uk

Bills, amendments and new laws

• The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions and Members of the Police Appeals Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 2026

  Statutory instrument · Fri 30 Oct · legislation.gov.uk

Select committees

• Letter to the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence relating to Treasury Minute response - The MoD's tackling of economic crime and misconduct, dated 27 October 2026

  Committee · Public Accounts Committee · Tue 27 Oct · committees.parliament.uk

• HMRC’s anti-fraud intervention on child benefit

  Committee evidence, 8 items · Public Accounts Committee · Mon 26 Oct · committees.parliament.uk

Written questions and answers

• Retail Trade: Organised Crime

  2 written questions and answers · Home Office · Thu 29 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Firearms: Crime

  2 written questions and answers · Ministry of Justice · Wed 28 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Police: Staff

  2 written questions and answers · Home Office · Mon 26 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Police: Data Protection

  2 written questions and answers · Home Office · Mon 26 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Microsoft: Police

  2 written questions and answers · Home Office · Mon 26 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Crime: EU Law

  Written answer · Cabinet Office · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Motor Vehicles: Crime

  Written answer · Home Office · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Hunting: Crime

  Written answer · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Freedom of Information: Crime

  Written answer · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• When he intends to make free court transcripts available for all victims of a crime.

  Written question · Ministry of Justice · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• What the average time taken is by (a) probation officers and (b) police to respond to breaches of electronic…

  Written question · Ministry of Justice · Fri 30 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

• Ministry of Defence Police: Training

  Written answer · Ministry of Defence · Thu 29 Oct · questions-statements.parliament.uk

And 59 more question topics this week. Policy Radar alerts you to all of them for your own keywords.

GOV.UK: consultations, news and publications

• Ofqual fines Innovate Awarding £185,000 over failures to deal with fraud risks

  News · Ofqual · Tue 27 Oct · gov.uk

• Tyneside pizza boss jailed after gambling with money from £150,000 Covid loan fraud

  News · The Insolvency Service · Mon 26 Oct · gov.uk

• Government unleashes £1.2 billion crackdown as part of anti-fraud drive

  News · DWP · Mon 26 Oct · gov.uk

• Intellectual property: Crime and infringement

  Publication · IPO · Fri 30 Oct · gov.uk

• Police recorded injury road traffic collisions and casualties Northern Ireland monthly report to 31 August 2026

  Publication · PSNI, NISRA · Fri 30 Oct · gov.uk

• Police protest powers, June 2022 to March 2026

  Publication · Home Office · Fri 30 Oct · gov.uk

• Crime statistics

  Publication · Home Office · Thu 29 Oct · gov.uk

• Agricultural and Rural Crime in Northern Ireland, period ending 30 September 2026

  Publication · PSNI, NISRA · Thu 29 Oct · gov.uk

• Police recorded crime in Northern Ireland, period ending 30 September 2026

  Publication · PSNI, NISRA · Thu 29 Oct · gov.uk

• State of Policing 2025 to 2026

  Publication · HMICFRS · Thu 29 Oct · gov.uk

• Crime and Policing Act 2026: economic notes

  Publication · Home Office, MOJ · Tue 27 Oct · gov.uk

• Antisocial behaviour powers

  Publication · Home Office · Mon 26 Oct · gov.uk

And 2 more items this week. Policy Radar alerts you to all of them for your own keywords.

How this page is made

Every Monday we search the official items Policy Radar collected in the past week (Monday to Sunday) for these words in the title: police, policing, crime, knife crime, antisocial behaviour, fraud. Written questions on the same subject are grouped together, and amendments are grouped by bill. Matching on titles is quick but rough: some relevant items will be missing and a few may be off-topic. Each item links to the official page. For police, security firms and community safety groups.