"The Scottish Parliament is going to have much more responsibility in terms of spending money, but it will also have to be accountable for how it raises taxes to fund that spending, and I think that's a good thing".
However the research highlights the inherent problem of giving GPs responsibility for spending the bulk of NHS resources when they are themselves increasingly involved in providing many of those services.
Under the Act, enacted into law almost a year ago, groups of GPs and other clinicians were given more responsibility for spending most of their budgets and for buying-in certain health services, a process known as clinical commissioning.
Such a scenario, where the parties are effectively relieved of spending responsibility, would undoubtedly increase the chances of one of the main partners in the Executive - the DUP and Sinn Fein - walking away and collapsing the institutions.
Such a scenario, where the parties are effectively relieved of spending responsibility, would undoubtedly increase the chances of one of the main partners in the executive – the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) and Sinn Féin – walking away and collapsing the institutions.
They had responsibility for spending most of the money that central government allocated to education in the country.
It was an important position that included responsibility for spending millions of dollars in rural health money from the central government.
One in seven doctors appointed to the new clinical commissioning boards, which will have responsibility for spending £60bn of NHS money every year, could have a significant financial conflict of interest, an investigation has found.
They will be the bodies that take responsibility for spending 60% of the NHS budget.
Ministers have already started piloting GP consortiums, which will take responsibility for spending 80% of the NHS budget in England by 2013.
