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Body of Knowledge · Capability & economy · D12

UK value capture

How much value stays in the UK?

31 out of 100 · Dependent

Average of 411 scored findings; 0 findings carry no evidence on this dimension and are not counted.

1. By sector

  1. Schools 57
  2. Defence 45
  3. BBC 36
  4. NHS 31
  5. Local Government 28
  6. Devolved Governments 26
  7. Central Government 22
  8. Policing 22
  9. Higher Education 17

2. How findings split

  • Exposed 231
  • Dependent 0
  • Partly sovereign 108
  • Sovereign 72

How we score it

Each finding is scored 0 (exposed) to 3 (sovereign) from the evidence field below; the page index is the average, scaled to 100.

uk value capture
High 3
Medium 1.5
Low 0
The full method

3. Most exposed

  1. AWS – national services (Spine 36 services, NHS login, e-RS, 111 DoS, MESH) 0 NHS · NHS – National · Amazon Web Services (NHS England Digital, 2023)
  2. Microsoft Azure – NHSmail shared tenant, Copilot, NHSE analytics; ICB/trust Azure subscriptions 0 NHS · NHS – National · Microsoft (Find a Tender Service, 2025; Microsoft, n.d.)
  3. Palantir Foundry SaaS hosting for Federated Data Platform 0 NHS · NHS – National · Palantir (on hyperscaler cloud) (NHS England, 2026; The Register, n.d.)
  4. Microsoft Windows 10/11 Enterprise desktops (licensed via national Microsoft agreement) 0 NHS · NHS – National · Microsoft (TechRadar, 2025)
  5. NHS App on iOS and Android 0 NHS · NHS – National · Apple; Google (Digital Health, 2025)

4. Most sovereign

  1. National SOC (Dundee) delivery partner 100 Devolved Governments · NHS Scotland (NSS National Security Operations Centre) · Systal (Futurescot, 2024)
  2. LandWeb land registration system (BT PFI since 1999) pending NOVA replacement 100 Devolved Governments · NICS (Land & Property Services, DoF) · BT (GOV.UK, 2025)
  3. NHS Wales App delivery partner (discovery, development, operations, support) 100 Devolved Governments · NHS Wales (DHCW / NHS Wales App) · Kainos (Find a Tender Service, 2024)
  4. Welsh Nursing Care Record (single national instance since Nov 2023) 100 Devolved Governments · NHS Wales (DHCW) · Digital Health and Care Wales (UKAuthority, 2024)
  5. Welsh PAS (WPAS) incl. maternity and theatre modules 100 Devolved Governments · NHS Wales (DHCW) · Digital Health and Care Wales (Pthb, 2023)
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