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Oral questions

27 February 2025 at 10:10am

Church Commissioners and House of Commons Commission and Public Accounts Commission and Restoration and Renewal Client Board and Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church of England has made of the contribution of rural parishes.
Conservative, Bridlington and The Wolds
1. UIN 902885: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what discussions the Church has had with the Government on the extension of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire
2. UIN 902886: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the Commission is taking to ensure that Portcullis House is functioning effectively.
Conservative, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
3. UIN 902887: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent estimate the Church has made of the contribution of its cathedrals to local economies.
Conservative, Salisbury
4. UIN 902888: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church has made of the potential implications for its policies of the level of funding available from the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme in 2025-26.
Conservative, Windsor
5. UIN 902889: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, if the Commissioners will have discussions with their counterparts in the Church of Scotland on support for places of worship with declining congregations.
Liberal Democrat, Edinburgh West
6. UIN 902890: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what support the Church is providing to the Diocese of Jerusalem, in the context of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Labour, Edmonton and Winchmore Hill
7. UIN 902891: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Church has made an assessment of the potential merits of specific legislative protections for significant church organs.
Labour, Glasgow West
8. UIN 902892: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the Restoration and Renewal Client Board, what the key cost drivers are for the programme.
Labour, Worcester
9. UIN 902893: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the Rt hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what discussions he has had with the Electoral Commission on the arrangements for the publication of the first Strategy and Policy Statement.
Labour, Kensington and Bayswater
10. UIN 902894: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what progress the Church has made on appointing a new Archbishop of Canterbury.
Independent, Canterbury
11. UIN 902895: tabled on 13 February 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the Restoration and Renewal Client Board, what steps the Client Board is taking to engage with parliamentary staff on the restoration of the Palace of Westminster.
Liberal Democrat, Didcot and Wantage
12. UIN 902896: tabled on 13 February 2025