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[Q4 2026](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4)

[United Kingdom](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk)

[Government](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/government)

UK Devolved Government Sites

# UK Devolved Government Sites

[Search  every site in this cohort](#cz-sites)

uk-devolved-governments

The Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland departments, with their agencies and public bodies that run hosts of their own.

Index 12.1 · scanned 2026-11-02 · up to 32 URLs per site · 250 organizations · 159 scanned (63.6% coverage) · 60 with no published URL · scored as `government`

Median score

63

across 159 sites

Middle half

56–69

spread around the median

Full range

33–78

lowest to highest

Gated

46 of 159

block AI crawlers outright

Strongest of the 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.

Where this list came from

## The source, and how we filtered it

| Source | [Scottish National public bodies directory; Welsh Register of devolved public bodies; Northern Ireland departments and public bodies](https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-public-bodies-directory/), Scottish Government; Welsh Government; nidirect and the Department of Finance (Northern Ireland); GOV.UK (2026-10-02) |
| --- | --- |
| License | Each is Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (gov.scot links the OGL v3 on the page; gov.wales, nidirect, finance-ni.gov.uk and GOV.UK publish under OGL v3), which permits copying, publishing and adapting with attribution. Wikidata is CC0. |
| Cite as | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| How we filtered it | Scotland: every section page of the directory (updated 2026-10-02) except Health bodies and the 'outwith Ministerial responsibility' page (colleges and integration joint boards, names only), each body's 'Web:' link, high. Wales: Register of devolved public bodies xlsx (2026-06-02), English sheet, Website column, high; NHS bodies, principal councils and UK bodies dropped, national park and fire and rescue authorities kept. NI: nidirect's nine departments with websites (high), plus the Department of Finance's list of bodies under NI procurement policy (names only). An NI body's address comes from GOV.UK's organisation_govuk_status.url (high), then the .gov.uk register when a domain still registered in 2026 is registered for exactly that body and its first label carries the body's acronym or a distinctive word (medium). Any remaining gap in any nation: Wikidata P856 for the single UK item (P17=Q145) whose English label equals the name (low); a page address is never taken. GOV.UK's devolved bodies are added and folded into a nation-list body when the name or the host matches. |
| Instead of | The NI Public Bodies Annual Report (discontinued after 2016/17); NIPSO's jurisdiction list (an ombudsman's remit, not the government's list); the nidirect contacts A to Z (its letter pages list only a handful of entries); Wikidata label matches without a country filter, which matched 'Fiscal Council' to Estonia's. |
| Built | 2026-11-02 |

The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.

Distribution

## Where the 159 sites land

| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adequate |   | 97 | 61.0% |
| Not ready |   | 4 | 2.5% |
| Weak |   | 54 | 34.0% |
| Strong |   | 4 | 2.5% |

By dimension

## What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension

The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.

| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [#1 · Reach](https://readinessindex.io/tests#d-1) These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |   | 83% |
| [#2 · Read](https://readinessindex.io/tests#d-2) AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |   | 58% |
| [#3 · Understand](https://readinessindex.io/tests#d-3) Does a machine know who and what you are? |   | 27% |
| [#4 · Act](https://readinessindex.io/tests#d-4) Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |   | 86% |

How much of each site we read

The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is **32**, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.

3 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.

Where this cohort fails

## 11 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes

Universal — nobody passes these

11 checks · 4 of them worth 2 points or more

| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [ACT-3](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-ACT-3) | If you have a public API, is it described in a standard file? | 100.0% | 1 | 2 |
| [EXT-1](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-1) | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 100.0% | 159 | 0 |
| [EXT-11](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-11) | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 100.0% | 159 | 0 |
| [EXT-12](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-12) | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 100.0% | 159 | 0 |
| [EXT-16](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-16) | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 100.0% | 159 | 0 |
| [EXT-17](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-17) | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 100.0% | 158 | 0 |
| [EXT-2](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-2) | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 100.0% | 9 | 0 |
| [EXT-7](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-7) | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 100.0% | 4 | 0 |
| [RED-10](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-RED-10) | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 100.0% | 146 | 2 |
| [RED-12](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-RED-12) | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 100.0% | 159 | 2 |
| [UND-2](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-2) | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 100.0% | 159 | 3 |

Near-universal — 95% and above

7 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more

| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [EXT-14](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-14) | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 99.4% | 156 | 0 |
| [UND-5](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-5) | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 98.6% | 139 | 1 |
| [PST-2](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-PST-2) | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 97.5% | 159 | 0 |
| [UND-1](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-1) | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 97.5% | 159 | 2 |
| [EXT-13](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-13) | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 96.2% | 159 | 0 |
| [PST-4](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-PST-4) | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 96.2% | 159 | 0 |
| [EXT-4](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-4) | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 95.6% | 159 | 0 |

Common — 90 to 95%

1 check

| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [UND-10](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-10) | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 94.3% | 159 | 2 |

Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.

Every site

## Every 250, named, with a report for each

Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.

Showing 1–100 of 250 · page 1 of 3

| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Scottish Government](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](http://www.gov.scot/)register id govuk:the-scottish-government; address from GOV.UK Organisations (organisation_govuk_status) (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Accountant in Bankruptcy](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/aib.gov.uk) [aib.gov.uk](http://www.aib.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:accountant-in-bankruptcy; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 |   |
| [Accounts Commission for Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/audit-scotland.gov.uk) [audit-scotland.gov.uk](https://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:accounts-commission-for-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; published as https://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/about-us/accounts-commission/; cut back to the site root | 67 | No | 1 |   |
| [Architecture and Design Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/ads.org.uk) [ads.org.uk](http://www.ads.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:architecture-and-design-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 |   |
| [Audit Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/audit.scot) [audit.scot](https://audit.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:audit-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 |   |
| [Boundaries Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/boundaries.scot) [boundaries.scot](https://boundaries.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:boundaries-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 |   |
| [Bòrd na Gàidhlig](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gaidhlig.org.uk) [gaidhlig.org.uk](http://www.gaidhlig.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:b-rd-na-g-idhlig; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 17 |   |
| [Cairngorms National Park Authority](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/cairngorms.co.uk) [cairngorms.co.uk](http://www.cairngorms.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:cairngorms-national-park-authority; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 |   |
| [Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/cmassets.co.uk) [cmassets.co.uk](http://www.cmassets.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:public-corporations:caledonian-maritime-assets-ltd; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 |   |
| Care Inspectorate [careinspectorate.com](http://www.careinspectorate.com/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:care-inspectorate; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — |   |
| [Children's Hearings Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/chscotland.gov.uk) [chscotland.gov.uk](http://www.chscotland.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:children-s-hearings-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 32 |   |
| [Community Justice Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/communityjustice.scot) [communityjustice.scot](https://communityjustice.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:community-justice-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; published as https://communityjustice.scot/get-involved/; cut back to the site root | 62 | No | 32 |   |
| [Consumer Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](https://www.gov.scot/groups/consumer-scotland/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:consumer-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| Convener of School Closure Review Panels [scrp-scot.stackstaging.com](http://scrp-scot.stackstaging.com/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:convener-of-school-closure-review-panels; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; published as http://scrp-scot.stackstaging.com/contact/www.scrp.scot; cut back to the site root; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| Court of Lord Lyon no website on recordregister id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:court-of-lord-lyon; no address in the body's own government's list, GOV.UK, the .gov.uk domain register or Wikidata | — | No | — |   |
| [Creative Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/creativescotland.com) [creativescotland.com](http://www.creativescotland.com/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:creative-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Crofting Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/crofting.scotland.gov.uk) [crofting.scotland.gov.uk](http://www.crofting.scotland.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:crofting-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Crown Estate Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/crownestatescotland.com) [crownestatescotland.com](https://www.crownestatescotland.com/)register id gov.scot-npbd:public-corporations:crown-estate-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 |   |
| [David MacBrayne Ltd](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/calmac.co.uk) [calmac.co.uk](http://www.calmac.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:david-macbrayne-ltd; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Disclosure Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/disclosure.gov.scot) [disclosure.gov.scot](https://www.disclosure.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:disclosure-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Drinking Water Quality Regulator](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/dwqr.scot) [dwqr.scot](https://dwqr.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:drinking-water-quality-regulator; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; no official list gives an address; Wikidata's official website for the one item with exactly this English label | 64 | No | 32 |   |
| [Education Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/education.gov.scot) [education.gov.scot](https://education.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:education-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Environmental Standards Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/environmentalstandards.scot) [environmentalstandards.scot](http://www.environmentalstandards.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:environmental-standards-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Ethical Standards Commissioner](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/ethicalstandards.org.uk) [ethicalstandards.org.uk](http://www.ethicalstandards.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:ethical-standards-commissioner; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 28 |   |
| Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Ltd no website on recordregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:ferguson-marine-port-glasgow-holdings-ltd; no address in the body's own government's list, GOV.UK, the .gov.uk domain register or Wikidata | — | No | — |   |
| [Food Standards Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/foodstandards.gov.scot) [foodstandards.gov.scot](http://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:food-standards-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 |   |
| [Forestry and Land Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/forestryandland.gov.scot) [forestryandland.gov.scot](https://forestryandland.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:forestry-and-land-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 |   |
| Glasgow Prestwick Airport [glasgowprestwick.com](http://www.glasgowprestwick.com/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:public-corporations:glasgow-prestwick-airport; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| [Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/hial.co.uk) [hial.co.uk](https://www.hial.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:highlands-and-islands-airports-ltd; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 |   |
| [Highlands and Islands Enterprise](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/hie.co.uk) [hie.co.uk](http://www.hie.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:highlands-and-islands-enterprise; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 29 |   |
| Historic Environment Scotland [historicenvironment.scot](http://www.historicenvironment.scot/)unreachableregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:historic-environment-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — |   |
| HM Chief Inspector of Education in Scotland no website on recordregister id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:hm-chief-inspector-of-education-in-scotland; no address in the body's own government's list, GOV.UK, the .gov.uk domain register or Wikidata | — | No | — |   |
| [HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk) [prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk](https://prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:hm-chief-inspector-of-prisons-in-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 11 |   |
| [HM Chief Inspector of Prosecution in Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/prosecutioninspectorate.scot) [prosecutioninspectorate.scot](https://www.prosecutioninspectorate.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:hm-chief-inspector-of-prosecution-in-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 18 |   |
| [HM Fire Service Inspectorate in Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](http://www.gov.scot/about/public-bodies/HMFSI)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:hm-fire-service-inspectorate-in-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [HM Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/hmics.scot) [hmics.scot](https://www.hmics.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:hm-inspector-of-constabulary-in-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 |   |
| Independent Living Fund Scotland [ilf.scot](http://ilf.scot/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:independent-living-fund-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| [Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/judicialappointments.scot) [judicialappointments.scot](https://www.judicialappointments.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:judicial-appointments-board-for-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 |   |
| Justices of the Peace Advisory Committee (x6) no website on recordregister id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:justices-of-the-peace-advisory-committee-x6; no address in the body's own government's list, GOV.UK, the .gov.uk domain register or Wikidata | — | No | — |   |
| [King's Printer for Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/oqps.gov.uk) [oqps.gov.uk](http://www.oqps.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:king-s-printer-for-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 77 | No | 1 |   |
| Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority [lochlomond-trossachs.org](http://www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:loch-lomond-and-the-trossachs-national-park-authority; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| [Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/transport.gov.scot) [transport.gov.scot](https://www.transport.gov.scot/our-approach/accessible-transport/mobility-and-access-committee-for-scotland-macs)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:mobility-and-access-committee-for-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 55 | Gated | 32 |   |
| National Galleries of Scotland [nationalgalleries.org](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:national-galleries-of-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| [National Library of Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/nls.uk) [nls.uk](https://www.nls.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:national-library-of-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 |   |
| [National Museums Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/nms.ac.uk) [nms.ac.uk](https://www.nms.ac.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:national-museums-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; published as https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/; cut back to the site root | 58 | No | 32 |   |
| [National Records of Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/nrscotland.gov.uk) [nrscotland.gov.uk](http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:national-records-of-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [National Smart Ticketing Advisory Board (NSTAB)](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/transport.gov.scot) [transport.gov.scot](https://www.transport.gov.scot/public-transport/smart-and-integrated-ticketing/national-smart-ticketing-advisory-board/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:national-smart-ticketing-advisory-board-nstab; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 55 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [National Social Work Agency](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/socialwork.gov.scot) [socialwork.gov.scot](https://www.socialwork.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:national-social-work-agency; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 76 | No | 32 |   |
| NatureScot [snh.gov.uk](http://www.snh.gov.uk/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:naturescot; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| [Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/oscr.org.uk) [oscr.org.uk](http://www.oscr.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:office-of-the-scottish-charity-regulator; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 11 |   |
| [Parole Board for Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottishparoleboard.gov.uk) [scottishparoleboard.gov.uk](http://www.scottishparoleboard.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:tribunals:parole-board-for-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 |   |
| [Patient Safety Commissioner](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/patientsafetycommissioner.scot) [patientsafetycommissioner.scot](https://www.patientsafetycommissioner.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:patient-safety-commissioner; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 16 |   |
| [Police Investigations & Review Commissioner](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/pirc.scot) [pirc.scot](https://pirc.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:police-investigations-review-commissioner; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 |   |
| [Police Negotiating Board for Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](https://www.gov.scot/groups/police-negotiating-board-scotland/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:police-negotiating-board-for-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Poverty and Inequality Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/povertyinequality.scot) [povertyinequality.scot](http://www.povertyinequality.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:poverty-and-inequality-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 |   |
| [Qualifications Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/qualifications.gov.scot) [qualifications.gov.scot](http://www.qualifications.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:qualifications-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Quality Meat Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/qmscotland.co.uk) [qmscotland.co.uk](http://www.qmscotland.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:quality-meat-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 |   |
| [Redress Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/redress.scot) [redress.scot](http://www.redress.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:redress-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 15 |   |
| Registers of Scotland [ros.gov.uk](http://www.ros.gov.uk/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:registers-of-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — |   |
| [Revenue Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/revenue.scot) [revenue.scot](https://www.revenue.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:revenue-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 |   |
| [Risk Management Authority](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/rma.scot) [rma.scot](https://www.rma.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:risk-management-authority; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/rbge.org.uk) [rbge.org.uk](http://www.rbge.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scotland's Commissioner For Children and Young People](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/cypcs.org.uk) [cypcs.org.uk](http://www.cypcs.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:scotland-s-commissioner-for-children-and-young-people; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 |   |
| Scottish Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards no website on recordregister id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-advisory-committee-on-distinction-awards; no address in the body's own government's list, GOV.UK, the .gov.uk domain register or Wikidata | — | No | — |   |
| [Scottish Agricultural Wages Board](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](https://www.gov.scot/groups/scottish-agricultural-wages-board/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-agricultural-wages-board; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Biometrics Commissioner](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/biometricscommissioner.scot) [biometricscommissioner.scot](https://www.biometricscommissioner.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:scottish-biometrics-commissioner; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 29 |   |
| [Scottish Canals](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottishcanals.co.uk) [scottishcanals.co.uk](http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-canals; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Children's Reporter Administration](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scra.gov.uk) [scra.gov.uk](http://www.scra.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-children-s-reporter-administration; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Commission on Social Security](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](https://www.gov.scot/groups/scottish-commission-on-social-security/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-commission-on-social-security; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scotcourts.gov.uk) [scotcourts.gov.uk](http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:scottish-courts-and-tribunals-service; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/sccrc.co.uk) [sccrc.co.uk](https://www.sccrc.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-criminal-cases-review-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Enterprise](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottish-enterprise.com) [scottish-enterprise.com](http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-enterprise; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/sepa.org.uk) [sepa.org.uk](http://www.sepa.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-environment-protection-agency-sepa; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Fire and Rescue Service](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/firescotland.gov.uk) [firescotland.gov.uk](http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:scottish-fire-and-rescue-service; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Fiscal Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/fiscalcommission.scot) [fiscalcommission.scot](http://www.fiscalcommission.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:scottish-fiscal-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 |   |
| Scottish Food Commission no website on recordregister id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-food-commission; no address in the body's own government's list, GOV.UK, the .gov.uk domain register or Wikidata | — | No | — |   |
| [Scottish Forestry](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/forestry.gov.scot) [forestry.gov.scot](https://www.forestry.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:scottish-forestry; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/fuelpovertypanel.scot) [fuelpovertypanel.scot](https://fuelpovertypanel.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-fuel-poverty-advisory-panel; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Funding Council](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/sfc.ac.uk) [sfc.ac.uk](http://www.sfc.ac.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-funding-council; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Futures Trust](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottishfuturestrust.org.uk) [scottishfuturestrust.org.uk](http://www.scottishfuturestrust.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-futures-trust; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Housing Regulator](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk) [scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk](http://www.scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:non-ministerial-offices:scottish-housing-regulator; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 1 |   |
| [Scottish Human Rights Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottishhumanrights.com) [scottishhumanrights.com](http://www.scottishhumanrights.com/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:scottish-human-rights-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Information Commissioner](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/foi.scot) [foi.scot](https://www.foi.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:scottish-information-commissioner; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Land Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/landcommission.gov.scot) [landcommission.gov.scot](http://landcommission.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-land-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Law Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scotlawcom.gov.uk) [scotlawcom.gov.uk](http://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:advisory-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-law-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 25 |   |
| [Scottish Legal Aid Board](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/slab.org.uk) [slab.org.uk](http://www.slab.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-legal-aid-board; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Legal Complaints Commission](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/scottishlegalcomplaints.org.uk) [scottishlegalcomplaints.org.uk](http://www.scottishlegalcomplaints.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-legal-complaints-commission; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish National Investment Bank](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/thebank.scot) [thebank.scot](https://www.thebank.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-national-investment-bank; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Police Authority](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/spa.police.uk) [spa.police.uk](http://www.spa.police.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:scottish-police-authority; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Prison Service](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/sps.gov.uk) [sps.gov.uk](http://www.sps.gov.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:scottish-prison-service; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Public Pensions Agency](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/pensions.gov.scot) [pensions.gov.scot](https://pensions.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:scottish-public-pensions-agency; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Public Services Ombudsman](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/spso.org.uk) [spso.org.uk](http://www.spso.org.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:commissioners-and-ombudsmen:scottish-public-services-ombudsman; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Pubs Code Adjudicator](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/gov.scot) [gov.scot](https://www.gov.scot/groups/scottish-pubs-code-adjudicator/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:scottish-pubs-code-adjudicator; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the host is shared with other bodies, so the page is kept | 74 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Rail Holdings Ltd](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/railholdings.scot) [railholdings.scot](https://www.railholdings.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-rail-holdings-ltd; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Road Works Commissioner](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/roadworks.scot) [roadworks.scot](https://roadworks.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:other-significant-national-bodies:scottish-road-works-commissioner; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 |   |
| [Scottish Social Services Council](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/sssc.uk.com) [sssc.uk.com](http://www.sssc.uk.com/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:scottish-social-services-council; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 |   |
| Scottish Water [scottishwater.co.uk](http://www.scottishwater.co.uk/)blockedregister id gov.scot-npbd:public-corporations:scottish-water; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — |   |
| [Skills Development Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk) [skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk](http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:skills-development-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 |   |
| [Social Security Scotland](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/socialsecurity.gov.scot) [socialsecurity.gov.scot](https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-agencies:social-security-scotland; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 |   |
| [South of Scotland Enterprise](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk-devolved-governments/southofscotlandenterprise.com) [southofscotlandenterprise.com](http://www.southofscotlandenterprise.com/)register id gov.scot-npbd:executive-non-departmental-public-bodies:south-of-scotland-enterprise; address from Scottish Government, National public bodies directory (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 |   |

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