Cameron sets out reform agenda David Cameron claimed on Sunday the coalition had "a full tank of gas," as he prepares to set out plans for the rest of the parliament to reform pensions, social care, child care and to improve Britain's transport network. Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg, his Lib Dem deputy, will publish on Monday a "midterm review" trumpeting the coalition's achievements, and setting out a work programme that is tightly constrained by the crisis in the public finances. A new single state pension will be introduced in the next parliament that will simplify the current system and help women and self-employed workers in particular. However the state retirement age will rise in line with life expectancy to control the long term costs of the reform. Mr Cameron confirmed the state would introduce a cap on the amount of money the elderly or disabled would in future have to pay for social care, following the proposals of the economist Andrew Dilnot. George Osborne, chancellor, has insisted that the cap be set much higher than Dilnot's proposed £35,000-£50,000 with a figure of £75,000 suggested in an attempt to cut the cost of the scheme, which will also not come until after 2015. Tax breaks for child care and new rules on carer/child ratios are intended to help working families. Meanwhile Mr Cameron confirmed he wanted to increase private sector involvement in financing new roads - new charges for the use of motorways are being promoted by Mr Osborne. Ministers are also expected to publish the route of the high speed rail link beyond the planned London-Birmingham stretch. The line will form a "Y" shape, with one branch going to Manchester and the other going to Leeds via Sheffield. In a busy start to the new political year, Mr Cameron is also preparing his long-awaited speech on Europe, in which he is expected to offer an EU referendum after he has negotiated what he hopes will be a better membership deal. Mr Cameron told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme it was not unreasonable to ask for the repatriation of powers to Britain while eurozone countries pushed for ways for deepening their own economic and political union. "It's perfectly acceptable to say that you are making your changes and there are changes Britain would like to make too," he said. Mr Cameron said he did not think "it would be right for Britain" to leave the EU and seek a simple trading relationship with Europe, arguing that the UK needed to be at the table to write he rules of the single market. A referendum promise is expected to feature in the next Tory manifesto, but the question would not be put until the next parliament; EU treaty negotiations to deepen eurozone co-operation are not expected to start in earnest until after 2015.