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Clergy: Vacancies

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how many parishes have a vacancy for (a) an incumbency and (b) a priest-in-charge; and how many (i) incumbent and (ii) priest-in-charge vacancies there have been in each of the l

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Answering body
Church Commissioners
Tabled
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
1 Sept 2025
Answer
1 Sept 2025 · 41 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how many parishes have a vacancy for (a) an incumbency and (b) a priest-in-charge; and how many (i) incumbent and (ii) priest-in-charge vacancies there have been in each of the l

  2. 1 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The National Church Institutions do not hold information centrally about the number of vacancies in urban or rural parishes; the deployment of clergy to benefices is a matter for diocesan bishops and their leadership teams.Data on benefice vacancies are o...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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