§ Mr. KeyTo ask the right hon. Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church Commissioners are taking to assist the churches in adjusting to the introduction of the Community charge.
§ Mr. AlisonThe commissioners are closely consulting dioceses about what charges would be desirable in the stipends arrangements of the clergy when they and their spouses become liable to pay a personal community charge in 1990. Because most of the clergy have hitherto lived in their accommodation free of rates, the commissioners hope to make substantial additional sums available for stipends in 1990 to reflect the extra costs which will fall on them.