YouGov/Sunday Times on workfare, NHS & Syria

The full tabs for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now online here.

The budget questions were all largely unsurprising - the mansion tax remains very popular (75% support on £2m houses), as is increasing the personal tax allowance and cutting fuel duty. People also continue to support the ending of child benefit for higher rate taxpayers by 62% to 30%. Abolishing higher rate tax relief on pension contributions was much less so - 42% supported and 31% opposed.

Turning to workfare, there is majority support for both the voluntary work experience system (supported by 59% and opposed by 34%) and mandatory work placements for long term unemployed people (supported by 61% and opposed by 32%). On the principle of whether companies are making a positive contribution by taking part in the scheme or exploiting the unemployed, 52% think it is a good thing for companies to provide unpaid work, 34% think it is a bad thing.

The survey also repeated questions on the government's health policy from a fortnight ago, finding a slight drop in the already low support for the government's proposals. Now only 14% support them (compared to 18% a week ago) with 48% opposed (no change). 38% say don't know. Half of Tory voters now think the government should drop the bill.

On Syria there is little change from a fortnight ago, the picture remains that a majority of people would support economic sanctions against Syria, but very few would back military intervention. The majority of those who would back Western action against Syria would do so only with UN support.

UPDATE: How embarrassing - I was looking at the wrong column, half of Tory supporters think the government should continue with the bill (technically, of course, that means half don't, but that's divided between 21% who think they should drop it and 30% who don't know).