§ 45. Mr. Whiteheadasked the hon. Member for Kingswood (Mr. Walker), as representing the Church Commissioners, if he will list recent representations made to the Church Commissioners concerning the Parochial Records and Registers Measure shortly to be laid before Parliament.
§ Mr. Terry WalkerI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave him on 4th May.
The laying before Parliament of new Measures is the responsibility of the General Synod and not the Commissioners. The Parochial Registers and Records Measure has been given final approval by the Synod and is now under consideration by the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament. Representations with respect to the Measure would have been addressed not to the Commissioners but to the Synod's Secretary General, to whom I would refer my hon. Friend.