HC Deb 27 March 2000 vol 347 c52W
32. Mr. Swayne

To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate the Commissioners have made of the impact of "Common Worship" on the number of vocations. [114848]

Mr. Stuart Bell

Liturgy and fostering vocations are not the direct responsibility of the Commissioners. It is not possible to demonstrate a correlation between new liturgy and the rise and fall in the number of ordinations and ordinands.