Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Selaine Saxby and Jerome Mayhew

Thursday 27th April 2023 Commons Chamber

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

5. How the Church of England plans to spend grant funding from local authorities.

[Jerome Mayhew (Broadland) (Con)]

9. How the Church of England plans to spend grant funding from local authorities.

[The Second Church Estates Commissioner (Andrew Selous)]

Grants that would cover kitchens, loos or disability access, basic repairs to rooves and windows and so on are in many cases unavailable to Church of England parish churches because of an inconsistency in the way in which local authorities are applying the law, and the Bishop of Bristol has tabled an amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill to resolve this so that parish churches can apply for such grants, and I hope the Department will be supportive of it.