§ 34. Mr. FlynnTo ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what his calculation is, based on current trends, on the probable numbers of(a) church pensioners and (b) people attending Anglican churches in 2030. [149420]
§ Mr. Stuart BellNo authoritative forecast exists to 2030, whether for church pensioners or people attending Anglican churches. As to the latter, I understand from the Statistics Unit of the Archbishop's Council that the way church attendance is counted is being changed from a Sunday-only basis to an average weekly attendance, in order to take fuller account of actual patterns of attendance.