Oral QuestionChurch Commissioners

“To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church of England has made of the extent of global persecution of Christians during the covid-19 pandemic.”

Tabled: 3 September 2020Answered: 10 September 2020

Answering Minister

the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Josh MacAlister)

The Government’s spending watchdog reported in 2017 that planned free schools would add an estimated 57,500 more spare school places. We are taking a common-sense approach, so that we can prove value for money from every pound of taxpayer money spent.