Sutton Question Time is an opportunity for residents to ask questions directly to local leaders and get answers.
Sutton Question Time provides an opportunity for local people to ask questions directly to local leaders from the council and other partner organisations, and to have those questions answered.
Following an increase in the number of people following the event online the next Sutton Question Time will for the first time take place entirely online through twitter.
This will take place on Wednesday 11 December 2013 from 7pm to 8pm. People will be able to pose questions to the panel through twitter using #SuttonQT.
The panel will be made up of Cllr Ruth Dombey, Leader of Sutton Council, Colin Stewart, Executive Head of Education and Early Intervention and Chris Parker, Chief Executive of Volunteer Centre Sutton. It will be hosted by Simon Parker, Director of the New Local Government Network.
The theme of this question time is ‘getting involved’.
To ask your question to the panel you need to send a tweet from twitter and at the end of your question type #SuttonQT. Our host will be looking through all the tweets and aiming to get as many of the questions as possible answered by the panel.
We want to answer your questions so join in on Wednesday 11 December at 7-8pm.
Remember to use #SuttonQT on all your questions.
For more information, email questiontime@sutton.gov.uk
To watch a video of a Sutton Question Time held at Greenshaw High School on May 22nd 2013, please click on the link below:
I accidently came across this information, about question time on twitter, while looking for something else. What about all the people who do not use computers or smart phones? Will they be excluded from asking questions in future? Many people who are computer literate don’t bother with social media such as Twitter as they have better things to do or find it intrusive! Although I appreciate that it is a good chance to ask questions for those who can not get to meetings, I hope it is just going to be supplementary to live, face to face opportunities for questions. How do people know when the next ‘Twitter’ question time is due?
Brenda Pennington
Dear Brenda
Happy New Year
Good point! I think the online “QT” is possibly a trial and I think it is aimed at those people who can’t make meetings very easily in the evenings in winter time, esepcially towards Christmas (this last one was held just a fortnight or so before Christmas Day).
Perhaps the next “QT” will be held in a public place.
I will ask Cllr. Ruth Dombey about this matter next time I see her!
As a resident you are of course able to ask a question or two in a public place at the meetings of the Full Council (by writing in beforehand to the council’s Chief Executive, I think) and at any of the meetings of six local committees which Sutton Council runs at least 5 times a year (the latter you can ask questions just by turning up).
Best wishes
Hamish, Alan and Jill
Carshalton Central ward councillors