General Synod (Remote Meetings) (Temporary Standing Orders) Measure

Baroness Butler-Sloss Excerpts

Thursday 22nd October 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)]

My Lords, I chair the Ecclesiastical Committee. As the right reverend Prelate said, we met in November and found this Measure to be expedient. It is perfectly sensible. The only sadness for me is that it is a shame it has to come to Parliament and cannot be dealt with by the synod itself. Since the synod is created by Parliament, that is why that cannot be done, as the right reverend Prelate said. I give my support to it and say that that is exactly what the Ecclesiastical Committee said.