Church Commissioners written question – answered at on 3 September 2019.
John Hayes
Conservative, South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church commissioners, what proportion of Church of England employees are practising Christians.
Caroline Spelman
The Second Church Estates Commissioner, Chair, Draft Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill Committee, The Second Church Estates Commissioner
It is not possible to give the proportion of employees either at a parish, diocesan or national institution-level who are practising Christians as information on this is not recorded or held centrally. Some posts within the National Church Institutions have a Genuine Occupational Requirement to either be a ‘Practising or Communicant member of the Church of England or a member of a Church in communion with the Church of England’.
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No0 people think not
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