Consultation outcome - Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments

This is the government response to the consultation ‘Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments’. It follows the government response in 2018 to the consultation ‘Powers for dealing with unauthorised developments and encampments’.

In this response the Home Office has set out the next steps that the government will take which include:

• introducing a new criminal offence of intentional trespass
• amending the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994