Written Question·Church Commissioners·UIN 63009
Church of England: Slavery
Tabled: 26 June 2025
Answered: 6 July 2025
Question
Neil O'Brien
Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
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.
Answer
Marsha De CordovaThe 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...
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