Written Question·Church Commissioners·UIN 63009

Church of England: Slavery

Tabled: 26 June 2025
Answered: 6 July 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

ConservativeHarborough, 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 Cordova
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...

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