Question follow-through · 20589
Cathedrals: Choirs
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church Commissioners are taking to support the work, cultural and spiritual contribution of cathedral choirs.
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- Answering body
- Church Commissioners
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 41 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church Commissioners are taking to support the work, cultural and spiritual contribution of cathedral choirs.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Church Commissioners provide funding to pay for the dean and two canons as part of cathedral staff and have a Cathedral Sustainability Fund to which all cathedrals can apply. The role and funding of cathedral choirs is a matter for the dean and chapte...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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