Any Questions, the BBC Radio 4 flagship, will be broadcast live from the Ceres Hall, Devizes tonight at 8pm and some questions could prove awkward for the Government.

Questioners are expected to ask the panel’s views on currently-pressing matters such as: did the No 10 Christmas party happen or not and why is it not OK to go to the office but it’s fine for offices to meet for parties?

It is the first time that Any Questions has come from Devizes in 11 years. Back in June 2010, when the programme was chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby, the live debate from the Devizes Festival had a panel of immigration minister Damian Green; the Labour MP Kate Hoey; the musician Billy Bragg; and the editor of the Spectator, Fraser Nelson.

This time the programme, which is being presented as part of the Devizes Arts Festival, will be hosted by Chris Mason and the panel will be the co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales Carla Denyer, the financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith, the Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge and the Chair of the Resolution Foundation and Conservative peer Lord Willetts.

The political debate and discussion programme is repeated on Radio 4 tomorrow at 1.10pm.