Apparently so.  Who knew that that dear old Circumlocution Office had it in them.  Check this out. 

Shame it’s back in dear old Blighty, as I’ve a feeling that the Land of the Free could do with a healthy dose of agility at the top! 

Actually, no it’s not a shame, as I was told that something like half of all legislation written in the UK since the Magna Carta (written in 1215) has been written since 1997!  (Do not quote me, this is from fuzzy memory.)  Someone’s been trying to handle things with a command-and-control approach, not the way to adapt to a fast changing post-industrial society.