Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the introduction of the Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill, what plans they have to legislate further to (1) allow a monarch of any faith, and (2) end the automatic right of Bishops of the Church of England to sit in the House of Lords.

The Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill will remove historic legal barriers that prevent an individual professing either the Roman Catholic or Jewish faiths from advising the Sovereign on Church appointments.

The Government has no plans to legislate on these wider matters.