§ Baroness Platt of Writtleasked Her Majesty's Government:
How Ministers with livings at their disposal will appoint parish priests should the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure receive Royal Assent.
§ The Lord Chancellor (Lord Mackay of Clashfern)The Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure allows Parochial Church Councils to resolve that they will not accept a woman as an incumbent or priest-in-charge of the benefice. In exercising the Lord Chancellor's rights of patronage I would wish to respect the wishes of individual parishes. I would not wish to impose a women priest on a reluctant parish.