Question follow-through · 20967
Church Commissioners: Food Banks
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what support the Commissioners offered local food banks during the run up to Christmas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Church Commissioners
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what support the Commissioners offered local food banks during the run up to Christmas.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
Church of England churches run or support 35,000 social action projects, including 60% of churches supporting 8,000 food banks with volunteers, donations, venues, or a combination of these. 12,000 churches are involved in the Trussell food bank network ov...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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