The Central Committee has noticed that for the first time since Anglicanism was recognised by the Belgian State in 1870, not a single one of the 20 Anglican clergy and lay-readers salaried by the Ministry of Justice is registered as a British citizen. Our parishes are growing and in good heart, and they are increasingly staffed by non-British clergy and lay-readers. We nonetheless deplore this evidence of the steady distancing between the UK and Belgium which the Withdrawal Agreement (2020) and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (2021) have triggered since they came into force, a distancing which in no way corresponds to the extremely warm relations enjoyed between Belgium and Britain since Belgium's independence in 1831.