Public services
Public services touch the lives of everyone in society – and businesses have a major role to play as users, funders and suppliers in improving these services to meet the needs of UK citizens
Creating effective public services markets - from education and healthcare, to policing and welfare - is a key element to how succesfully government at all levels can transform public services to meet the long-term demands facing them.
It requires bold thinking about the way we design and run public services, to ensure they provide both good outcomes and better value for money.
Business has a vital role to play in improving public services and helping government get the most out of its markets. Having a diverse range of providers increases quality, stimulates new ways of working and encourages greater efficiency – essential to encouraging growth and dealing with the deficit.
The best providers from the public, private and voluntary sectors should compete on a level playing field – government needs to enhance its capacity to create and manage markets to make this happen and promote public confidence in their use. Real transparency should be at the heart of all public sector contract
Through our Public Services Network, we seek to bring together business, public sector, the voluntary and charities sector and other interested groups to establish a dialogue on the right ways to proceed.
Public Services Network
Meet up with other members involved in reforming public service delivery
In focus
From healthcare and education to welfare and policing, read our ideas on public services
Video interview - Margaret Hodge
Watch PAC chair Margaret Hodge MP on the private sector's important role
Meet the team
The group of experts who represent our members on public services
Call for Evidence
Share your ideas about how the UK's public services can be transformed
2014 Procurement survey
Getting a better purchase shows business wants government to improve its commercial skills
Latest News
UK must adapt its exports approach to tap into £452bn overseas procurement market
Public procurement of goods and services in 12 key emerging markets will almost triple to £452 billion by 2030, according to new CBI research. But the UK will only capture £11 billion of this growth, if its market share stays the same
Event focus: Public Services Network
The launch of the CBI's Public Services Network
CBI comments on Government plans for public contracts
Commenting on remarks by Simon Hughes, Minister of State for Justice, that the Government is developing transparency clauses for public contracts
