PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United Kingdom · Question · Written question

UIN 63009

Church of England: Slavery

answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

Introduced

26 June 2025

Last action

6 July 2025 · Answer

Status

Answered

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

6 July 2025

Summary

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.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

  1. 26 June 2025

    Written question

    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.

    Source: Commons

  2. 6 July 2025

    Answer

    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...

    Source: Written answer

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.