On 13th June 2019 the Second Church Estates Commissioner, Rt Hon Dame Caroline Spelman MP, answered a written question from Frank Field MP on affordable housing:
Frank Field (Birkenhead): 262248 To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2019 to Question 259013, how many affordable homes have been built by the Church of England or its agents in each local authority area since 2015; and what the affordable housing requirement is in each of those local authority areas.
Dame Caroline Spelman: There have been 295 new affordable homes created on land owned by the Church Commissioners since 2015.
Details for each Local Authority area are shown in the following table.
| Local Authority | Number of Affordable Houses Provided | Policy Requirement for Number of Affordable Houses |
| Durham | 34 | 50 |
| West Lindsey | 15 | 30 |
| East Cambridgeshire | 30 | 60 |
| Carlisle | 42 | 42 |
| Mendip | 60 | 60 |
| Sunderland | 23 | 23 |
| Arun | 15 | 15 |
| Ashford | 77 | 77 |
| Total | 295 | 356 |
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