Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on the Independent Faith Engagement Review; and when his Department plans to publish the results of that review.

In October 2019 the Government announced that Colin Bloom had been appointed as the Faith Engagement Adviser at the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government.

As Faith Engagement Adviser, Colin Bloom is leading a review into how the Government should best engage with faith groups in England.

In October 2020 Colin Bloom launched a Call for Evidence, posing a series of questions about the Government’s engagement with faith groups. The Call for Evidence closed on the 11 December and received over 20,000 responses, demonstrating the timely nature of this review.

The review is ongoing, and will be published in summer 2021.