Government Delivery Index

Public Sector

MORI's latest Delivery Index survey, conducted for the Financial Times, shows that the public remain divided over whether the Government's policies will improve the state of the economy. The public also remain sceptical about the Government's ability to improve public service in the long term, although trends on both these areas have improved since 2003.

 

MORI's latest Delivery Index survey, conducted for the Financial Times, shows that the public remain divided over whether the Government's policies will improve the state of the economy. The public also remain sceptical about the Government's ability to improve public service in the long term, although trends on both these areas have improved since 2003.

  • MORI interviewed 965 British adults 18+
  • Fieldwork conducted by telephone between 26-30 November 2004
  • Data weighted to the national population profile
  • An '*' indicates a finding of less than 0.5%, but greater than zero
  • Where percentages do not add up to exactly 100% this may be due to computer rounding, the exclusion of "don't knows" or to multiple answers

On balance do you agree or disagree that...

Q1 In the long term, this government's policies will improve the state of Britain's economy?

  %
Agree 40
Disagree 46
Don't know 14
Net agree -6

Q2 In the long term, this government's policies will improve the state of Britain's public services?

  %
Agree 36
Disagree 54
Don't know 10
Net agree -18

Q3-7 Thinking about ... over the next few years do you expect it to ... ?

  The NHS The quality of education Public transport The way your area is policed The quality of the environment
  % % % % %
Get much better 3 3 2 3 3
Get better 26 29 22 23 24
Stay the same 35 35 37 49 33
Get worse 26 22 25 17 31
Get much worse 7 5 8 4 7
Don't know 2 6 6 4 2
 
Better 29 32 24 26 27
Worse 33 27 33 21 38
 
Net better -4 +5 -9 +5 -11

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