Church of England

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Industry, Trade and Regional Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 July 1964.

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Photo of Mr Lawrence Orr Mr Lawrence Orr , South Down 12:00, 23 July 1964

Is my right hon. Friend aware that, while I have no desire to embroil him in current religious controversies— [HON. MEMBERS: "Why not? "]—because I think he has enough to do—there has not been a Royal Commission on the Church of England since 1906, and that it is 45 years since the Act was passed setting up the Church Assembly and the relationship between it and Parliament? Would it not be a good thing, in order to delay current religious controversies and the possibility of a clash between this House and the Church Assembly, if some such inquiry were made and provocative legislation by the Church Assembly were held up pending it?