§ 40. Mr. Harry GreenwayTo ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to his answer of 9 December,Official Report, column 55, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Church Commissioners' review of advice to dioceses on security measures for parsonage homes and suffragan bishops' homes. [11155]
§ Mr. AlisonThe advice which the commissioners have under review at present specifically concerns parsonage houses, as part of a wider review of their parsonages design guide. To this end, they have visited houses in the dioceses of Chichester, Guildford and Oxford and have in hand visits to the dioceses of Manchester and Southwark. They will also have discussions on security with crime prevention officers. Suffragan bishops houses' are the which responsibility of dioceses which no doubt bear in mind the security measures introduced by the commissioners into See houses and which are recommended in the parsonages design guide.