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Is it clear that all the numbers can be netted and that resource under one heading can be transferred to meet a requirement for more resource under another heading?
In your report you said of the newly transferred social security benefits that “not knowing how much its grant will increase to fund this expenditure is a real problem for the Scottish Government.”
We need to be able to monitor, evaluate, and learn lessons about what is transferable from how we do things with children to how we do things with vulnerable adults.
If we had a system in which the UK could simply say, “We’re going to transfer all these powers to you, but we’re not giving you any money,” Westminster might vote for it, but the Scottish Parliament would not.
The answer might be to find some way for legislation to make it legal for that data to be transferred in specified circumstances. That is the case for some other areas.
For example, I have been working with a Shetland general practitioner to introduce a policy of the right to die at home. That would obviously involve follow-on services, which are crucial.