Sixth Form Question Time
Tuesday 11th February 2025, 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Join us for our annual Sixth Form Question Time, an opportunity for students to debate with distinguished speakers and have their voices heard in the heart of Parliament Square.
Students will have the opportunity to pose questions to a panel of politicians, public servants, activists and faith leaders, bringing their concerns and interests to the forefront of discussion.
The event will take place in St Margaret's Church, commonly called "the parish church of the House of Commons", a place which has witnessed many important events in the life of this country. We hope that the discussions that will take place in this historic setting will inspire and empower the next generation of changemakers.
Panellists
We will ask participating school to submit questions in advance of the event, so that the students can carefully consider what they would like to hear from our specific panellists.
Clare Moriarty (Chair)
Clare Moriarty is Chief Executive of Citizens Advice and leads the national charity and network of local Citizens Advice charities across England & Wales. She was previously a civil servant for 35 years, latterly as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2019, and of the Department for Exiting the EU until its closure in January 2020.
After leaving the Civil Service, Clare chaired the Health Foundation’s Covid-19 impact inquiry before joining Citizens Advice in 2021. She is the senior independent member of Westminster Abbey’s Board, a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Treasurer of the History of Parliament Trust.
Father Andrew Mumby
Father Andrew Mumby is Rector of St Peter's, Walworth in the Diocese of Southwark; an Honorary Priest Vicar of Westminster Abbey (which means he sometimes helps with services); a Bishops' Adviser on discernment for ordination, helping people to see if God is calling them to be a priest or deacon in the Church; a member of the Drapers' Company in the City of London which gives charitable and volunteer support to schools, universities, almshouses and other organisations; and a member of the Church of England's General Synod.
He is passionate about social, racial, gender, LGBTQIA+, climate and other forms of justice. He's interested in Black Theology of all kinds, and if he had time for a hobby it would be photography. He is passionate about using social media to share God’s love and show that priests aren’t always boring. He was born in Montego Bay Jamaica, grew up in semi-rural Lincolnshire, and has lived in South London for about 25 years, since graduating in Music in Birmingham.
Mete Coban
Mete Coban MBE became the Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy in July 2024, overseeing the Mayor’s world-leading climate action plan for the capital.
Before becoming Deputy Mayor, Mete was a Councillor and Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment, and Transport in the London Borough of Hackney, delivering a £61 million Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis. He is best known for pioneering Hackney’s Community Energy Fund, providing clean, green, community-owned energy to 39 not-for-profits.
Mete is widely credited with making politics more accessible to young people as the Founder of the youth-led charity My Life My Say. He led the Give an X voter registration campaign, which resulted in over 488,000 newly registered voters ahead of the UK General Election in July 2024.
David Davidi-Brown
David Davidi-Brown is chief executive of the New Israel Fund (UK).
The New Israel Fund partner with and fund organisations working towards a just, safe and equal future for Israelis and Palestinians.
David began his career as a youth worker and professionally and as a volunteer has worked on LGBTQIA inclusion, global development, refugees, climate change and combatting racism.
David grew up in Ilford and lives with his husband in Bow. David is a proud son of an immigrant and uncle to one niece and six nephews. David has learnt a lot of resilience from life as a Spurs fan.
Dr Harrison Carter
Dr Harrison Carter is the Director of Screening for the NHS in England with national responsibility for the delivery of 11 of England’s population health screening programmes that, annually, interact with approximately 15 million patients and save 10,000 lives.
Prior to this, he was Chief of Staff for COVID-19 vaccination deployment where he was a member of the Senior Leadership Team with national responsibility for setting up and overseeing the biggest and most complex vaccination programme in UK history, that was responsible for preventing millions of COVID-19 infections, hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions and COVID-19 deaths.
A medical doctor by background Harrison worked clinically in a Central London Emergency Department during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He is Fellow of the Westminster Abbey Institute, and the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Fellow of the Society of Leadership Fellows at Windsor Castle and was the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow. He was non-executive director at the British Medical Association.
Theo Clarke
Theo Clarke was the Member of Parliament for Stafford and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at HM Treasury, the Department of Business and Trade and as the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Kenya. She is currently the Vice Chair of the United Nations Association UK and sat on the International Development Select Committee during the last Parliament.
Theo chaired the first parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma in British history and previously set up the All Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma in the House of Commons. She won 'Political Speech of the Year' at the Parliamentarian of the Year Awards and was included in the Top 100 Women in Westminster in 2024. Theo is an also author on maternal health and is the host of the women's health podcast 'Breaking the Taboo'.
Key information
Date: Tuesday 11th February 2025, 1,00pm - 3.00pm
Location: St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey
Price: £6 per student
Maximum number of students per school: 15
