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That was caused by the deliberate transfer of taxation from national to local government, the creation of new burdens for local authorities and the partial funding of new initiatives, particularly by the Scottish Executive.
Rather than being a focused bill that creates new law on a specific subject, as was the case with the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Bill covers a wide range of policy areas and major parts of it amend existing legislation rather than creating wholly new law.
That would be entirely natural.I was working on the assumption that, at the very latest, my bill would be ready to submit to the Presiding Officer in September 2002.
Until we have an overview of how active the groups are, it is hard to judge whether the new applications are needed or whether they can be accommodated in the existing groups.