McKay said many proposals could only be implemented in the 18 months promised by Scottish ministers with enough goodwill from UK ministers, reported the Herald.
Meanwhile, Education Secretary Michael Gove denied being one of the three Cabinet ministers reported to have expressed their concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill to the website ConservativeHome.
More widely, private briefings from ministers, reported in recent days, reflect a degree of positioning for any future leadership contest, but not an immediate one.
Compared with neighbors in their census tracts, the ministers reported significantly higher rates of arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma.
Running the government, or what is left of it, is expected to move forward on Monday, when the ministers report to work.
Ministers reported that they were being forbidden to make any statement or give any interview unless it had first been cleared through Number 10.
The results echoed recent internal surveys by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which found that 69 percent of its ministers reported being overweight, 64 percent having high blood pressure and 13 percent taking antidepressants.
It's the Tories who are already shaping up to fall apart over their old EU blood feud, with eight cabinet ministers reported to be considering joining the No side.
Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister, reported assets worth over €6m ($7.9m).
The health minister reported a 40% rise in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010.
