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Poverty

Asked by Luke MurphyLabourChurch CommissionersTabled Answered 16 October 2025UIN 905737

The question

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England is taking to help tackle poverty.

Answered by Marsha De Cordova

Church of England churches are involved in over 30,000 social action projects, hosting food banks, breakfast clubs, and much more besides. The Lords Spiritual continue to use their place in the House of Lords to raise concerns about poverty, and have long called for the two-child limit to be scrapped as the most effective means of reducing child poverty.

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