Public Answers

Everything about how and where you live is decided without you. This is how that stops.

We publish questions, from social and economic ideas where people live and work, to national and global ways to improve everyone’s way of life. And we publish the answers. Each question goes to the person with the power to decide, and what they did next is recorded, including nothing.

Question one, open now

Is civil law fair in England and Wales?

Fairness should not be traded for cost. One sentence in one rule, asked of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee.

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What comes back

Every question sent is listed on the response register with what the decision-maker said, or the fact that nothing was said by the date. That list is the measure this programme asks to be judged by.

Place	Question	Sent to	Sent on	Reply due	Response
No question has been sent yet. The first rows appear when the first working groups report.

Who is behind this

Stuart Thompson, engineer and inventor. He was told a camera nobody watches could not be built. He built it, patented it in Europe and America, and used it to pioneer one of the world’s first AI video analytics markets. He also runs Fairness First, a campaign to put fairness above cost in the rule that governs every civil case in England and Wales. Fairness First is the first working group. It asked one question, and the answer, whatever it is, will be published here. The pattern is the same each time: find the question people will say yes to, build to it, measure it, publish the measurement.

If you have never been asked

Most decisions about how you live are made without asking you. Polls ask a thousand strangers a question they did not choose. Consultations arrive after the decision. This is the opposite: your place, your question, your reason, on the record.

If you were asked and nothing happened

You answered a survey, signed a petition, went to a meeting. Nothing changed and nobody told you why. Here the question, the answer and the response are on one page, in public, so silence is visible too.

The working groups behind each question are the engine under the bonnet. How it works, step by step.

What one looks like

Working group, example layoutThe place, and the question in one sentence

StateAwaiting response

Who answeredHow many people answered, where they live, how they were checked, and the dates the group was open.

What they saidThe result in one line, with the three main reasons beneath it.

The evidence shownEach item put beside the question, with its source and date.

Sent toThe named decision-maker, the date it was sent, and the date they were asked to reply by.

Their responseTheir reply in their own words, or the record that no response was received by the date.

No working group has reported yet. This is the layout every one of them will use.

Two things you can do

About two minutes

Propose a question

Tell us the place and the question. If enough people there want it answered, a working group opens. About two minutes.

Propose a question

One email address

Follow the first working groups

One email address. We tell you when a group opens, when it reports, and what the decision-maker did. Nothing else.

Our targets

Every working group that reports in the first twelve months appears here with a published result and a recorded response. The number we are working to is set when the first group opens and published on this page with the date it was set. Every figure on this site is measured before it is published; none is estimated.

Public Answers is a programme of Global SafetyWatch. It is not connected to any political party and does not support or oppose any party or candidate. It is not connected to any government body. Every published figure carries its source. Nothing on this site is legal advice. Translations are automatic and may be inaccurate; the English text is the one we stand behind.