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Figure 5 Proportion of MPs to whom statements apply Base: All respondents (1,097) Do not take bribes Do not use power for own gain Dedicated to doing a good job for the public Set a good example in their private lives Competent In touch with what the public think important Make sure public money spent wisely Tell the truth Explain reasons for actions and decisions Own up when make mistakes 12 32 31 30 29 % saying statement applies to all or most MPs % saying statement applies to about half of MPs % saying statement applies to a few or no MPs 42 40 17 46 51 79 31 32 34 38 31 19 39 33 69 38 39 34 9 29 26 30 20 20 8 (Table 42) 46 BMRB International Report: Survey of public attitudes towards conduct in public life
Figure 6 Proportion of government ministers to whom statements apply Base: All respondents (1,097) Do not take bribes Do not use power for own gain Dedicated to doing a good job for the public Set a good example in their private lives Competent In touch with what the public think important Make sure public money spent wisely Tell the truth Explain reasons for actions and decisions Own up when make mistakes 10 23 28 28 30 % saying statement applies to all or most ministers 41 41 39 17 % saying statement applies to about half of ministers % saying statement applies to a few or no ministers 47 77 35 29 34 26 19 29 34 36 72 42 42 43 38 33 10 30 24 23 9 (Table 53) Taken out of context, these results might be seen as quite damning and, indeed, they do not portray national politicians in Britain in a particularly positive light. Less than half of respondents, for example, felt that any one of the positive attributes applied to most or all MPs or government ministers. However, seen in the context of other research on a similar theme, the results do not seem surprising. For example: • Results from the State of the Nation Poll, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust in October 2000 (reported in Dunleavy et al., 2001), show similarly high levels of scepticism about the standards of conduct of national politicians: – While 19 per cent of respondents in this survey thought that at least half of government ministers took bribes and 17 per cent that at least half of MPs did so, 49 per cent of respondents in the State of the Nation poll thought that “financial sleaze in government” was a major problem and 39 per cent that it was a minor problem; BMRB International Report: Survey of public attitudes towards conduct in public life 47
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Page 3 and 4: List of Tables Table 1 Key events d
Page 5 and 6: The Seven Principles of Public Life
Page 7 and 8: Acknowledgements The Authors would
Page 9 and 10: Executive summary Introduction In M
Page 11 and 12: 3 Public expectations and prioritie
Page 13 and 14: Figure 2 Statements attributed to a
Page 15 and 16: 6 Views on public sector recruitmen
Page 17 and 18: 9 Overall perceptions of standards
Page 19 and 20: Introduction This report presents t
Page 21 and 22: Stage 1 research The Stage 1 resear
Page 23 and 24: Research methods Stage 2: Questionn
Page 25 and 26: Chapters 3 and 4 address large part
Page 27 and 28: 1 The political context and influen
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Page 31 and 32: When respondents were asked to say
Page 33 and 34: In order to obtain a measure of the
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Page 41 and 42: 3 Public expectations and prioritie
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Page 53 and 54: The attributes on which MPs perform
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Page 57 and 58: 4.2.1 Honesty Figure 8 shows how th
Page 59 and 60: 4.2.3 Use of public money Figure 10
Page 61 and 62: 4.2.5 Summary A consistent pattern
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politicians with being competent an
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References Bromley, C., and Curtice
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Technical appendix Research methods
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Stage 3: The national survey The su
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COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LI
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SECTION B - EXPECTATIONS, PRIORITIE
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