An Affordable Public SectorDriving through efficiencies

Clive Barton, Group Marketing Director, Serco

Member, CBI Public Services Strategy Board

Government Spending

Source: ONS/HMT

35

37

39

41

43

45

47

49

% GDP

Government spending and tax revenues

spending

receipts

% G

DP

Government Spending

Source: ONS/HMT

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37

39

41

43

45

47

49

% GDP

Government spending and tax revenues

spending

receipts

% G

DP

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100

Strongly agree or tendto agree

Strongly disagree ortend to disagree

“We urgently need to improve the quality of public services……”

%

“The problem is not lazy or incompetent people; it is red tape and regulation so suffocating that they stifle every ounce of creativity. The federal government is filled with good people trapped in bad systems: budget systems, personnel systems, procurement systems, financial management systems, information systems. When we blame the people and impose more controls, we make the systems worse.”

Al Gore

“The academic literature typically found the cost savings from competitive tendering to be between 10 per cent and 30 per cent (including when the in-house team won the bid) with no adverse effect, and sometime and improvement, in service quality.”

The Julius Review, July 2008

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100

Strongly agree/agree Disagree/stronglydisagree

“In my contract, I have more autonomy than I had in the public sector.”

“Managing my contract, I have more freedom to experiment and innovate than I would have as a public sector employee.”

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100

Strongly agree/agree Disagree/stronglydisagree

Government Spending

35

37

39

41

43

45

47

49

% G

DP

Government spending and tax revenues

spending

receipts

Source: ONS/HMT

An Affordable Public SectorDriving through efficiencies

Clive Barton, Serco

Public Services Strategy Board