Government Delivery Index

Quarterly survey of attitudes towards public services

Technical details

  • MORI interviewed 969 adults 18+
  • Fieldwork conducted by telephone between 13-16 December 2002
  • 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 38
Disagree 44
Don't know 18
Net agree -6

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

  %
Agree 35
Disagree 52
Don't know 13
Net agree -17

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 3 2 2
Get better 30 36 23 25 28
Stay the same 30 33 33 46 33
Get worse 25 19 28 19 29
Get much worse 7 4 9 4 7
Don't know 3 5 5 6 2
 
Better 33 39 26 27 30
Worse 32 23 37 23 36
 
Net better +1 +16 -11 +4 -6

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