Question follow-through · 29047
Churches: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Project Spire on (a) church parishes and (b) the maintenance of historic church buildings.
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- Answering body
- Church Commissioners
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 21 Mar 2025 · 44 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Project Spire on (a) church parishes and (b) the maintenance of historic church buildings.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Mar 2025
Answer published
Project Spire is important missional activity. The anticipated impact on parishes is an increased understanding of historic links with enslavement, which exist in many parts of the Church of England, and possible ways to share, discuss and respond.Funding...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Christianity: Religious Practice
31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how many confirmations there were in each year since 1994.
Churches: Attendance
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what the weekly attendance was for (a) children, (b) adults and (c) all ages for (i) weekly, (ii) Sunday and (iii) school services in each year since 2003.
Church of England: Slavery
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, for what reason the Church Commissioners have spent £5 million on Project Spire prior to approval from the Charity Commission.
Church of England: Slavery
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what the source of the £100 million fund for healing, repair and justice as part of Project Spire is.
Church of England: Slavery
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2025 to Question 63010 on Church of England: Slavery, how much has been spent on this project so far.
Church of England: Slavery
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2025 to Question 63010 on Church of England: Slavery, whether the £5 million to be spent on project Spire in the triennium spending plans 2026-28
Church of England: Slavery
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, on what date the board of trustees will meet to approve the application for project spire; and when they plan to make an application to authorise an ex-gratia payment under secti