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<p>The Church Commissioners are in regular contact with the Dioceses of Hereford and
Lichfield. During the winter of 2022-23, due to dramatic increases in energy costs,
£3million of Church Commissioners’ funding was made available through the Archbishops’
Council to support additional ministry hardship funding for clergy and lay workers,
and a further £15million was similarly made available in energy cost support funding
for dioceses to allocate primarily to Parochial Church Councils. This money was in
addition to the dioceses' own ministry hardship funding and discretionary funding.</p><p>There
is no plan to offer a similar scheme this year over and above the money already available
through diocesean discretionary and hardship funds.</p>
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