Delivery Actually: What People Really Want From Public Utilities D

4 Delivery Actually: What People Really Want From Public Utilities However, the fact that most respondents want the main privatised industries to return to the public sector is not the end of the story. [...] 5 Delivery Actually: What People Really Want From Public Utilities How Voters View the Private and Public Sectors THe PrIVATe SecTOr IS INNOVATIVe, THe PUbLIc SecTOr IS STUcK IN THe PAST – bUT ONLY UP TO A POINT First, we asked a series of general questions about perceptions of the two sectors. [...] On ten of the 12 statements, the association with either the private or the public sector is the same for Labour and Conservative voters. [...] The next set of questions relates to the sectors of the economy that have been privatised – moved from the public to the private sector – in recent decades. [...] The first is that the average numbers conceal a diversity in the range of answers given, especially on the estimated level of current profits.