HC Deb 28 March 1983 vol 40 c1W
Mr. Field

asked the hon. Member for Wokingham, as answering for the Church Commissioners, how much money was spent by the Church authorities on protecting Holy Trinity, Rugby, from the time it ceased to be used for public worship to the latest available date.

Sir William van Straubenzee

Under section 49(2) of the Pastoral Measure 1968, responsibility for the care and, maintenance of a redundant church, so far as is reasonable in all the circumstances, rests, not with the Church Commissioners, but, for the duration of the "waiting period", with the diocesan board of finance concerned.