HC Deb 23 January 2001 vol 361 c499W
36. Mr. Swayne

To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement about the sale of vicarages and rectories. [144815]

Mr. Stuart Bell

There are some 7,800 parsonages in England. During the last five years for which figures are available, a yearly average of 97 parsonages were sold, 42 purchased and 18 built.