Parliament related articles

  1. Bishop and MP welcome marriage registration changes by Parliament

    27/03/2019

    COMMENT / The Bishop of St Albans together with Dame Caroline Spelman MP have welcomed changes made by parliament to allow for mothers' names to be included on marriage certificates.

  2. Bishop responds to report from the House of Lords Rural Economy Committee

    27/04/2019

    COMMENT / The Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has today responded to the publication of the report from the House of Lords Rural Economy Committee.

  3. Bishop supports protections for children in covert intelligence bill

    13/01/2021

    Bishop of Durham, the Church of England’s Lead Bishop for Children and Families, supports moves in the House of Lords today to protect children in undercover operations by police and other authorities.

  4. Bishop Welcomes Universal Credit Announcement

    11/01/2019

    STATEMENT / Bishop of Durham comments on changes to Universal Credit announced by Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd

  5. Bishop's Bill calls on MPs to add mothers to marriage certificates

    24/07/2018

    NEWS / House of Lords passes Bill from Bishop of St Albans to end exclusions of mothers’ names from marriage certificates.

  6. Bishops call for respect on all sides amid Brexit debate

    27/09/2019

    NEWS / The bishops of the Church of England have issued a call for respect on all sides amid growing acrimony over the debate on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.

  7. Bishop’s bill to put mothers' names on marriage certificates passes first stage

    26/01/2018

    NEWS / A move to end the “historic injustice” of excluding mothers’ names from marriage certificates has passed its first parliamentary stage in a Private Member's Bill brought by the Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith.

  8. Dame Caroline Spelman

    05/09/2019

    NEWS / The Archbishop of Canterbury has led thanks to Dame Caroline Spelman for her service as Second Church Estates Commissioner

  9. General Synod to debate call for reconciliation for divided nation

    25/01/2019

    NEWS / Political leaders should draw on Christian hope and reconciliation to help steer the country through a time of divisions, according to a Synod motion tabled by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

  10. Leaseholders face crippling bills for problem they did not create – bishops react to Commons cladding vote

    22/03/2021

    The Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, the Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, and the Bishop of Kensington, Graham Tomlin, voice regret at the vote in the Commons  removing an amendment to the Fire Safety Bill to protect leaseholders from the cost of replacing dangerous cladding.