Oral Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 28 February 2018Answered: 12 March 2018
Asked by
Marsha De Cordova
Labour — Battersea
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Answer from Hansard
The Second Church Estates Commissioner (Marsha De Cordova)
The forensic accounting research published in 2023 revealed that Queen Anne’s Bounty was linked with African chattel enslavement in two main ways: significant investments in the South Sea Company; and benefactions received from individuals whose income may have derived from slavery. The fund for healing, repair and justice is the Church Commissioners’ response to these findings.