DEVOLVED NATIONS PACK (SCOTLAND / WALES / NI)

1. WHY DEVOLVED NATIONS GET A DEDICATED DEFONEOS PACK

UK devolved government is governed by the Scotland Act 1998 (as amended 2012, 2016), the Government of Wales Act 1998 (as amended 2006, 2017), the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement 1998, the Sewel Convention (Westminster does not normally legislate on devolved matters without consent), and the 2025 inter-governmental relations review. The Scottish Government (SG) in Edinburgh holds devolved powers over health, education, justice, transport, environment, local government, and agriculture (reserved matters: defence, foreign affairs, macro-economic, immigration). The Welsh Government (WG) in Cardiff holds devolved powers under the 2017 reserved-powers model. The Northern Ireland Executive and Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) operates under power-sharing (mandatory coalition under the D'Hondt system). Scotland receives a Barnett Formula block grant of ~£41bn/yr, Wales ~£18bn/yr, Northern Ireland ~£15bn/yr. DEFONEOS delivers the UK's first open-source Sovereign Public Services OS purpose-built for devolved nations — cross-border BFT governance, sovereign data-sharing agreements (UK / EU via NI Protocol), inter-governmental evidence chains, and devolved public service modernisation.

All entries are BFT-signed (Ed25519 / RFC 8032 / 2026-Q3 rotation) and curl-verifiable. Per-entry contacts sourced from SG Digital Directorate + WG Digital Health & Care + NICS Digital Shared Services (2026-Q1).

2. THE 11 UK DEVOLVED NATIONS ENTRY POINTS × CONTACT × DEFONEOS FIT

3. THE 8 DEVOLUTION PRIORITIES × DEFONEOS MCP COVERAGE

4. 6 DEFONEOS DEVOLVED NATIONS MCPs

5. DEVOLVED NATIONS DIGITAL BACKBONE

The UK devolved nations digital backbone spans the Scottish Government Digital Directorate's mygov.scot and ScotGov Digital services, NHS Scotland's national systems (CAN, SCI Store, Emergency Care Summary, Key Information Summary), the Welsh Government's Digital Health and Care strategy and NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) with the Welsh Clinical Portal, the Northern Ireland Civil Service Digital Shared Services with NIDirect and the Assure identity platform, the Northern Ireland Executive's cross-community decision systems, the UK Government's Scotland Office / Wales Office / NI Office reserved-matters interface, and the Joint Ministerial Committee inter-governmental coordination. The Belfast Agreement, the Sewel Convention, and the 2025 inter-governmental review mandate clear provenance for all cross-border decisions. DEFONEOS integrates via BFT-governed cross-border decisions, sovereign data boundary chains, devolved/reserved boundary evidence, and inter-governmental transparency. All evidence is curl-verifiable at the protocol layer.

6. 5-STEP ENGAGEMENT WORKFLOW

7. RED-LINE: NO DEVOLVED SOVEREIGNTY BREACH, NO CONSTITUTIONAL INTERFERENCE, NO SECTARIAN PROFILING

8. DEVOLVED NATIONS BUYER-TYPE MATRIX