United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 69759
Clergy: Vacancies
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22 July 2025
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1 September 2025 · Answer
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1 September 2025
Summary
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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22 July 2025
Written question
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
Source: Commons
1 September 2025
Answer
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-22/69759
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1825955
- uk · wq-1825955 · source updated 1 September 2025