1. Choice and Diversity? John Curtice Strathclyde University/ScotCen

2. Project Design zHow should services be delivered? zDoes how they are delivered matter? zParticular interest in ‘choice’ debate, zAnd ‘natural experiments’ of within UK variation. zFocus on education, health and social care.

3. Evidence zSurveys of public opinion in all four parts of the UK in 2007 zBritish Social Attitudes (2,022; 1,735 in E) zScottish Social Attitudes (1,508) zNorthern Ireland Life & Times (1,179) zSpecial Welsh survey (884)

4. (English) Elite Arguments z‘diversity of supply is a necessary condition of choice’ (Audit Commission) z‘it is necessary to have both user choice and provider competition’ (Le Grand) z‘widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for…more choice for patients’ (Brown)

5. Demand for Choice

6. Facilitating Choice

7. Importance of Choice

8. Meaning of Choice?

9. Within State Diversity?

10. Should business run…?

11. Should charities run…?

12. Attitudes to quasi-markets

13. Choice and Within State Diversity

14. Choice and Private Provision

15. Choice and Quasi-Markets

16. Conclusion zChoice and Quasi-markets may go together in the minds of elites… z..but we should not assume they do in the minds of the public. zDemand for choice is a demand for good (and diverse?) publicly provided services. zEngland should embrace markets less - but Scotland promote choice more?