Question follow-through · 63009
Church of England: Slavery
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.
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- Answering body
- Church Commissioners
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Church Commissioners has not spent that sum in connection with its response to historic links to African chattel enslavement (known by the project name Spire). Expenditure on this work to date has been limited to proportionate research into the Church...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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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