Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 110511

Religious Buildings: Tax Allowances

Tabled: 3 February 2026
Answered: 11 February 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has assessed the adequacy of the Green Book's methodology of the social and health benefits of places of worship, including when determining levels of capital and tax relie

Answer

Ian Murray
DCMS welcomes the new Green Book, including its treatment of social and health benefits. DCMS interventions in listed places of worship were assessed in line with Green book methodology. The Culture and Heritage Capital Programme, provides supplementary g...

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