Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what is the average church attendance each week in (a) Rother Valley Constituency, (b) Yorkshire, and (c) England in each year of the last five years.
The most recent survey of church attendance was published in 2018, and the table below contains figures aggregated from 2014-18 using average weekly attendance figures at all age services. These figures are collected each year during four weeks in October.
The figures in the table below include adult and child attendance at Sunday and midweek church services and fresh expressions, but not attendance at services for schools. Special local services such as memorials to commemorate flooding – can lead to fluctuations in the figures.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Rother Valley* | 1,450 | 1,260 | 1,170 | 1,130 | 980 |
Yorkshire* | 82,600 | 82,800 | 77,600 | 75,500 | 75,200 |
Church of England | 975,300 | 959,900 | 921,700 | 893,900 | 870,900 |
More information can be found in the annual Statistics for Mission report: https://www.churchofengland.org/media/18763
Parish boundaries do not coincide with constituency or county boundaries. Figures in the table are based on reasonable approximations as follows: