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| Reforms of public services like health and education will go "wider and deeper" in the years to come, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said. | Reforms of public services like health and education will go "wider and deeper" in the years to come, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said. |
| Mr Brown told the Liaison committee of MPs he wanted to get the public sector more focused on giving "personalised" services "tailored to people's needs". | Mr Brown told the Liaison committee of MPs he wanted to get the public sector more focused on giving "personalised" services "tailored to people's needs". |
| "So you will be talking not just about public services but about personal services," Mr Brown said. | "So you will be talking not just about public services but about personal services," Mr Brown said. |
| He said private and voluntary sector involvement would grow "a lot bigger". | He said private and voluntary sector involvement would grow "a lot bigger". |
| It is the PM's first grilling from the committee, which is made up of the chairmen of all the House of Commons select committee. | It is the PM's first grilling from the committee, which is made up of the chairmen of all the House of Commons select committee. |
| The next stage is to combine the diversity of supply with greater attention to diversity in demand Gordon BrownPrime minister Point-by-point: Brown grilled | The next stage is to combine the diversity of supply with greater attention to diversity in demand Gordon BrownPrime minister Point-by-point: Brown grilled |
| The twice yearly session, expected to last for two and half hours, began with questions about whether he planned to continue public sector reforms brought in by his predecessor Tony Blair. | The twice yearly session, expected to last for two and half hours, began with questions about whether he planned to continue public sector reforms brought in by his predecessor Tony Blair. |
| He said: "I think you will see it intensify and I think you will see it wider and deeper in future years than it has been in the last few years. | He said: "I think you will see it intensify and I think you will see it wider and deeper in future years than it has been in the last few years. |
| "The next stage is to combine the diversity of supply with greater attention to diversity in demand. In other words, services that meet the personal needs of the individual citizen." | "The next stage is to combine the diversity of supply with greater attention to diversity in demand. In other words, services that meet the personal needs of the individual citizen." |
| Gifted pupils | |
| This would be "not just about a universal service that seems to be uniform, but a service that is tailored to people's needs". | This would be "not just about a universal service that seems to be uniform, but a service that is tailored to people's needs". |
| Examples included allowing elderly people to help choose their own care and special help for gifted pupils in schools. | Examples included allowing elderly people to help choose their own care and special help for gifted pupils in schools. |
| Asked about the role of the private sector he said it was expanding and "will continue to expand and will be a lot bigger in the next few years than it is now". | Asked about the role of the private sector he said it was expanding and "will continue to expand and will be a lot bigger in the next few years than it is now". |
| 'Root out failure' | |
| MPs were told the government wanted to encourage more private sector competition for public contracts - including the GP and social care sectors. | |
| Mr Brown also said there would be a greater focus on one-to-one relationships between people and their doctors, teachers and other professionals - and a greater role for the voluntary sector. | |
| Citing the long-term unemployed, children leaving care and drug users trying to overcome addiction, he said: "What makes a big difference to their lives is one-to-one contact. Someone who is there to give assistance to them." | |
| He said he was determined to "root out failure" across the public services and the "culture of second best" was not acceptable. | |
| "We have got to root out failing schools, we have got to deal, as we will, with failing hospitals and failing trusts," he said. |