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OneAdvanced has acquired the assets of In Practice Systems (INPS) relating to its Vision general practice (GP) IT system from its French owner Cegedim. The deal, which follows last year’s announcement that INPS had voluntarily entered administration, will be a relief to GP practices in the UK, particularly those in Scotland where Vision is the only approved supplier.
INPS started life as Value Added Medical Products (VAMP) in 1984. It was acquired by Reuters in 1997 before being sold on to Cegedim in 1998 and rebranding as INPS. The cost of maintaining compliance and delivering required upgrades took their toll on the business, resulting in the INPS being loss making since 2015 (apart from in 2022 when it sold its share of its Healthcare Gateway joint-venture).
INPS was one of three suppliers (alongside EMIS (now Optum) and Microtest (which pivoted away from primary care and is now part ofUmmanu Health) to secure a place on NHS National Services Scotland’s (NSS) GP IT Managed Services framework in 2019. However, it was the only supplier to agree the Validation Contract with NSS to regulate compliance, leaving it as the only choice for GP practices in Scotland.
In January 2024, Cegedim made the decision to focus INPS operations on the opportunity in Scotland, entering exit agreements with for its arrangements in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. However, its financial position did not improve sufficiently, resulting in the company entering administration in December 2024 and the migration of Scottish GP practices to Vision being put on hold.
The deal with OneAdvanced means the c.900 GP practices transitioning from the incumbent Optum platform to the Vision cloud-based electronic patient record (EPR) system can resume, ending months of uncertainty.
Steven Flockhart, Director of Digital and Security, NHS National Services Scotland, said: “A stable and effective GP IT system is essential to supporting Primary Care across Scotland. We look forward to working closely with OneAdvanced on this next phase of service delivery.”
Vision will be incorporated into OneAdvanced’s existing Primary Care portfolio, which includes its Clinical Decision Support, GP Document Workflow, GP Workflow Assistant, and Online GP Consultation solutions. This will provide a comprehensive solution for GP practices and help to provide a more integrated solution for users.
The acquisition makes sense for all involved—OneAdvanced, Cegedim and Vision customers. It aligns with OneAdvanced’s strategic shift to verticalise its portfolio and better align its solutions to the requirements of key market segments, one of which is healthcare. Although the initial focus will be on supporting the transition to Vision in Scotland, many will be hoping the deal (alongside NHS England’s Tech Innovation Framework) heralds the start of increased competition in the core GP software market, which is dominated by Optum’s EMIS and TPP’s SystmOne platforms, helping to drive innovation and efficiency improvements.
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Jade Leung, the Chief Technology Officer of the AI Security Institute, has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s new AI adviser.Her appointment comes after former AI advisor to the PM, Matt Clifford, announced in June that he would be stepping down from the role for personal reasons, citing a desire to spend more time with his family. (See – AI adviser Matt Clifford steps down from government role).
Leung will report directly to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology in her role, splitting her time between both Number 10 and the AI Security Institute. As part of the role, Leung will workto position the UK as the leading nation to help unlock the benefits and prepare for the impacts of transformative AI, working closely with the Prime Minister to harness the technology and deliver the government’s Plan for Change.
Leung has spent nearly a decade working in key roles relating to AI, having served as head of research and partnerships at the Centre for the Governance of AI – an organisation which she co-founded – between 2017 and 2020. In 2021, she joined LLM supplier OpenAI as an advisor for governance and policy, before becoming governance lead in June 2022.
Clifford has served as the de-facto voice of national AI strategy and the bridge between successive governments, making his exit particularly significant. The UK government leaned heavily on his expertise as well as his deep ties to Silicon Valley and AI startups. It will be some big shoes to fill, but Leung has already received strong backing from Clifford, who commented;
“I’m delighted about this – a superb appointment (and a major upgrade on the last AI adviser…). Jade brings a tonne of experience in frontier labs, VC and government and will do an amazing job of ensuring the UK is an AI winner. Excellent news.”
Posted by: Simon Baxter at 09:32
Accenture has extended its relationship with the Home Office through a contract to support another part of the Migrations & Borders Technology Portfolio (MBTP). The new two-year Data Architecture Assurance engagement is worth £19.5m. The latest award follows the firm’s strategic win last year at MBTP in the security & architecture space (see here).
MBTP is part of the Digital Data and Technology Directorate in the Home Office. It comprises around 3,500 professionals made up of civil servants and suppliers working together to develop technology products, supporting critical programmes within the Migration and Borders system. Earlier this year, PA Consulting picked up an £85m MBTP deal to deliver technical architecture services.
Accenture has been making impressive progress in the UK Public Sector in recent times. Following two years of double-digit revenue improvement, the firm broke into TMV’s Top 10 supplier rankings for the vertical for the first time in 2024 (see here). Boosted by the acquisitions of public sector specialists Nautilus and 6Point6 in the previous year, Accenture achieved the strongest growth among this cohort.
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 09:07
Australian share registrar and mortgage processorComputersharereported decent FY25 results last week with EPS climbing 15% and revenue reaching $3.1bn (up 4.4% excluding the divested US Mortgage Services). The performance validates management’s successful delivery of its capital-light strategy.
Our interest mainly focuses on the company’s UK Mortgage services business, a c.$100m revenue operation that is mostly in run off and a legacy of the UKAR(UK Government’s ‘bad bank’ UK Asset Resolution scheme) fixed fee and a few other bits and pieces (see –Computershare to administer £5.3bn of mortgages sold to Barclays). Add in revenue from UK Property Rental Services and you have a UK BPO operation worth c.$160m a year in revenue that is broadly flat year on year. The business has also been a key focus of Computershare’s wider cost out programme.
Elsewhere, segment wise Corporate Trust emerged as the star performer with 8% fee revenue growth, driven by structured products demand. Employee Share Plans maintained momentum with 9% revenue growth and 15% EBIT expansion. Issuer services showed steady progress despite softer M&A volumes. The company also completed a AUD750m buyback and raised the final dividend 14.3% to 48 cents per share, signalling confidence in its cash generation.
Management guided FY26 EPS to approximately 140 cents (4% growth), supported by recovering debt issuance markets and operational leverage from prior investments. The strategic repositioning toward recurring revenue streams appears to be paying dividends in what has become a challenging interest rate environment.
Posted by: Marc Hardwick at 08:53
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TechMarketView’s review of spending via G-Cloud in 2024–25 is now available.
The report covers spending trends through this Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework over the 12 months ended 31 March 2025, including analysis of lots, supplier size, leading suppliers and buyers, and subsector (central government, defence, health, etc.) variability.
Over the 2024-25 financial year (12 months ended 31 March 2025), spend on G-Cloud decreased by 2.3% year-on-year to £2.9bn (2023-24: £3.0bn). Four departments spent in excess of £100m through G-Cloud during the year, with the Home Office being the highest spender.
There were three suppliers with G-Cloud income of over £50m, but AWS remains a long way ahead of the rest.Its income over the year was more than five times that of the second-placed supplier on the framework. SMEs accounted for 42% of G-Cloud spend during the year, up from 40% in 2023-24. Spend with SMEs increased by 1.6% year-on-year, whereas with large suppliers it fell 4.9%.
PublicSectorViews’ subscribers can access further analysis and charts in our G-Cloud Framework Spending Review 2024–25 report now.
If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Belinda Tewson to find out how you can access the research.
Posted by: Dale Peters at 07:00
We’re returning to Mall Galleries in London on 2nd October for our annual flagship networking event, An Evening with TechMarketView ’25.
Last year was a resounding success, with on-stage highlights including Chief Analyst Georgina O’Toole’s hard-hitting pitch on the real impact of GenAI in today’s market, plus a conversation with Executive Change’s Managing Partner John Harris about how their partnership with TMV is bringing together the ‘voice of the customer’ with the ‘voice of the market’.
But that was only half the story. Conversations on the floor during the networking reception proved equally as insightful. I had the opportunity to speak with many of our valued clients over the course of the evening – with topics ranging across AI (naturally), opportunities for innovation transfer between public sectors, and how best to approach sustainability as a business issue.
I expect to be returning to many of these concerns at this year’s event too, as they remain as relevant today as they were 12 months ago.
For instance, at the time of writing this article, I’m also in the process of pulling together a report on the key suppliers, trends and forecasts for the Local & Regional Government market (a sector under pressure to transform – for numerous efficiency, service quality, cybersecurity, and sustainability reasons – yet suffering significant financial hardships and technical debt challenges). We in TMV’s PublicSectorViews team will be covering all UK public sector subsectors in similar detail over the course of the next couple of months… so do come and talk to any of us about what we’re seeing in the market (and how we expect things to pan out).
And on the SustainabilityViews side of my research, TMV has recently published our series of Sustainability Technology Activity Index reports for 2025 (providing coverage of both the global market for sustainability technology, and a deep dive into UK-relevant activity).
The Index reports are based on exclusive research that tracks the milestone sustainability activities of over 2,000 organisations worldwide, analysed across 15 use case areas and 17 industry sectors. Armed with this wealth of unique, proprietary data, we’re able to highlight the hotspots of sustainability activity, which suppliers are dominating where and why, what technology combinations offer the best solutions to which problems, whether sector markets are mature or emerging… and what that all means (in terms of trends, predictions, and recommendations – for both suppliers and tech user organisations alike).
Of course, we’re only able to scratch the surface with our off-the-shelf reports. There are myriad ways in which we can cut that data to help solve your sustainability and public sector investment conundra (what to do now; what to focus on next; and where, when, how, and with whom to work in order to maximise value – to get ahead, and keep from being left behind).
Come and talk to me again this year… I’ll be there all night!
Thanks again to Mastek for coming on board as our headline sponsor for the third year in a row. Their continuing support means a huge amount to us as it allows us to can keep this event running year on year. Thanks also to CommsCo, who continue to work closely with us on media coverage, and who will officially be our event media partners.
If you’d like to join us, you can find tickets HERE.
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Canadian AI startup, Cohere, has closed its latest funding round, worth $500m. This values the company at $6.8bn.
The round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with participation from existing investors including AMD Ventures, Nvidia,PSP Investments, and Salesforce Ventures.
In tandem, the firm has appointed Joelle Pineau (former vice president of AI Research at Meta) as Chief AI Officer and Francois Chadwick (former executive at Uber) as Chief Financial Officer.
Cohere builds enterprise-specific AI models, and the extra funding will allow for both geographic and product expansion. It is not made explicit in the announcement, but Fujitsu is another investor. Last year it announced the launch of its Takane Large Language Model (LLM), developed in collaboration with Cohere for industry-specific use (e.g. government, finance, healthcare, and law). Fujitsu and Cohere brought together their respective expertise in Japanese language LLMs and task-specific LLMs.
Posted by: Kate Hanaghan at 09:45
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OneAdvanced has extended its partnership with c2c Railway Limited to support the latter’s transition into public ownership. c2c joins Northern, TransPennine Express, Southeastern, LNER, and South Western Railway – all now operated by the Department for Transport Operator – as part of the government’s move towards establishing Great British Railways as the body responsible for passenger services and infrastructure.
The train operator will use OneAdvanced’s Financials, Source to Contract, and Risk Management software to help it centralise complex contract and supplier management, and comply with transparency notice requirements. OneAdvanced will also work with c2c to embed AI across its departments to help it “identify actions that reduce organisational risk and improve governance”.
OneAdvanced’s newly launched AI-driven Purchase Invoice Automation solution will enable c2c’s supplier invoices to be automatically routed, approved and ingested into its finance system without manual processing, plus embedded AI capabilities within the Governance and Risk software will help it proactively identify risk mitigation opportunities, strengthen governance frameworks, and ensure sustained regulatory compliance. (See OneAdvanced launches sovereign AI service for more details on the company’s new AI platform and how it’s evolved from OneAdvanced’s portfolio of AI point solutions.)
By offering a 360-degree view of all active contracts, OneAdvanced’s Spend Management Solution enables timely interventions and negotiations to ensure optimal use of public funds (automatically updating to the central contract register to guarantee compliance with transparency requirements) – essential financial governance for a formerly private company moving under the auspices of the Department for Transport.
Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 09:14
London-based payments infrastructure provider Onerway has closed a $10m Series A+ round led by Yunqi, with backing from existing investors including Lanchi Ventures, Eminence Ventures, and Enlight Growth Partners. The funding reportedly values the company near $200m, representing significant growth since its 2017 founding.
The deal illustrates investor appetite for cross-border payment solutions as the digitisation of global business accelerates. Onerway’s infrastructure spans 170+ payment methods across 110 currencies, helping it capture growing demand from e-commerce platforms, gaming developers, and AI startups all looking for streamlined international transactions.
Notably, Onerway achieved profitability in 2022—a rarity among fintech startups with the company planning to use this raise to fund geographic expansion and next-gen products including stablecoin payments and AI-driven solutions. With a planned Series B targeted for 2026, Onerway looks in shape to compete with established players like Stripe the Irish/US fintech unicorn founded by the Collinson brothers from Limerick and other emerging challengers in a highly fragmented cross-border payments landscape.
Posted by: Marc Hardwick at 08:48
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GPU cloud infrastructure providerCoreWeavesaw its shares plummet 20% yesterday after reporting disappointing second-quarter losses that overshadowed strong revenue growth. The AI infrastructure firm posted net losses of $291m, significantly worse than expected, prompting investor concerns about its financial sustainability.
Despite revenues more than tripling year-on-year to $1.21bn, the widening losses exposed the harsh economics of CoreWeave’s aggressive expansion strategy. The firm’s operating margins collapsed from 20% to just 2% yoy, whilst capital expenditure hit a record $2.9bn during the quarter. The financial pressure is mounting across multiple fronts. Interest expenses ballooned to $267m from $67m a year earlier, reflecting the massive debt burden accumulated to fund infrastructure buildout. CFO Nitin Agrawal revealed the firm has raised over $25bn in debt and equity since early 2024, highlighting its cash-burning model.
CEO Michael Intrator attempted to shift the focus to new client wins, including with financial services firms Jane Street, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. However, this diversification push cannot mask CoreWeave’s precarious customer concentration. SEC filings show 77% of 2024 revenues came from just two customers, with Microsoft alone representing 62% and Nvidia believed to make up a large chunk of the rest.In March,CoreWeave signed an $11.9bn deal with OpenAItoprovide AI infrastructure.
Adding to investor concerns is CoreWeave’s proposed $9bn acquisition of Core Scientific, a bitcoin mining firm pivoting to high-density colocation services. The deal (if approved) would give CoreWeave approximately 1.3 gigawatts of power capacity and eliminate over $10bn in future lease liabilities. However, Core Scientific shareholders are resisting the merger. Core Scientific already counts CoreWeave as one of its biggest datacentre customers, raising questions about integration complexities.
Posted by: Simon Baxter at 10:17
Denmark-headquartered IT consultancy Netcompany has reported H1 2025 results (ended 30 June 2025) showing continued group growth, though UK performance remains challenged. Group revenue increased 6.4% in constant currency to DKK 3,459.2m, with adjusted EBITDA margin of 15.3% (H1 2024: 15.9%).
The UK business showed modest improvement, with revenue up 4.6% to DKK 322.5m in H1 2025. This marks a welcome return to growth (building on Q1’s near-flat performance – see Netcompany posts solid Q1 growth with UK business stable – after FY24’s 6.7% decline. UK public sector revenue grew 15.3%, signalling that the DALAS framework delays that plagued FY24 are finally bearing fruit, whilst private sector revenue fell 18% due to deliberate discontinuation of low-margin contracts.
Q2 group performance was notably impacted by the reallocation of 100 FTEs from Denmark to group initiatives including preparation for the SDC acquisition (completed on 1 July 2025 – see Netcompany acquires SDC to expand Nordic banking services) costing approximately DKK 45m in revenue. CEO André Rogaczewski emphasised this is “non-recurring” and should normalise in H2.
Looking ahead, Netcompany maintains FY25 organic revenue growth guidance of 5-10% and adjusted EBITDA margin of 16-19%. The SDC acquisition creates Netcompany Banking Services with expected H2 2025 revenue of DKK 840-870m, though integration costs will impact near-term margins. A DKK 500m share buyback programme, announced to coincide with the release of Q2’s financials, also signals management confidence in the underlying business trajectory.
Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 10:01
Out now for members of TechMarketView’s FinancialServicesViews is “Digital Twins for Financial Services”.
Digital twins are a quietly disruptive force poised to change how the financial services sector approaches risk management, fraud detection, and the customer experience. They represent a ‘sink or sprint’ decision point. Simulations based on dynamic modelling from integrated live data streams can make sense of the 
complexities and inter-relationships found in changing real world situations. Adoption positions financial services organisations to shift to proactive business models, able to reshape and adapt products and services based on data-informed likely impacts.
Think of digital twins as intelligent orchestrators able to collate and coordinate information and understand relationships and interactions. They allow the huge number of variables involved to be manipulated to model a range of data-informed outcomes organisations can use to shape offerings, anticipate growth opportunities and adverse events, and aid the preparation of disaster contingency plans. Through their use of AI, they also provide a pathway to meaningful adoption.
Twinning is not just for physical (built) industries such as manufacturing, and financialservices can learn valuable lessons from these sectors. Lloyds Banking is a high-profileorganisation exploring digital twins and across the sector use cases range across riskprevention, stress testing, customer experience and behaviour modelling, to climate risk management. The value of twinning to minimise digital infrastructure downtime should not be underestimated either. Neither should the deployment complexity of bespoke digital twins – wherein lie opportunities for SITS suppliers.
IT service providers should read this report to understand the specific opportunity for them in financial services and our recommendations for success.
Read the report: Digital Twins for Financial Services.
For access to this report, contact Belinda Tewson.
Posted by: UKHotViews Editor at 10:00
Ciscodelivered robust Q4 results for fiscal 2025, with revenue climbing 8% yoy to $14.7bn. The networking giant’s performance was bolstered by exceptional demand for AI infrastructure and network upgrades from hyperscale customers, alongside the launch of new AI-centric products. Full year FY25 revenue was $56.7bn, up 5%.
The standout metric was AI infrastructure orders, which exceeded $800m in the quarter, bringing the full-year total to over $2bn – more than double Cisco’s original $1bn target. This surge was primarily driven by web-scale customers, with four of the top six each delivering triple-digit order growth. The momentum reflects the critical role of networking infrastructure in supporting AI workloads.
Services revenue was $3.8bn, flat yoy. Networking was up 12% with growth across most of the portfolio led by double digit growth in Internet infrastructure and enterprise routing. Security was up 9%, primarily driven by growth in Splunk and SASE. Splunk and Cisco synergies delivered a 14% yoy increase in new logos, demonstrating the benefit of cross selling motions. Cisco’s Secure Access, XDR, HyperShield and AI Defense solutions also continued to see adoption ramp up. Collaboration was up 2%, driven by growth in devices, whilst Observability was up 4%, led by strong growth in Splunk and ThousandEyes. Total software revenue was up 5% with software subscription revenue also up 5%.
Geographic performance revealed divergent trends. EMEA showed particular strength with 10% order growth, led by mid-teens expansion in both enterprise and service provider segments. The Americas grew more modestly at 5%, whilst APJC delivered 7% growth. By customer segment, service provider and cloud orders surged 49% year-on-year, enterprise rose 5%, whilst public sector revenues declined 6%.
Looking ahead, Cisco provided optimistic guidance for fiscal 2026, projecting revenue between $59bn and $60bn. CEO Chuck Robbins highlighted multiple growth drivers, including the nascent enterprise AI opportunity, sovereign AI buildouts, which are expected to gain momentum in the second half and the opportunities around security, with Splunk expected to continue its strong momentum.
You can read more about Cisco’s strategic response to the new demands placed on corporate networks and operations teams, including their development of AI-ready secure networks, the convergence of networking and security functions, and the emergence of AI-powered network operations, in our recent report ‘Cisco: Enterprise networks must adapt for the AI era’ – available to all TechSectorViews subscribers
Posted by: Simon Baxter at 09:59
Following a couple of years in the doldrums (see here) FY25 appears to be seeing a marked change in fortunes for PA Consulting. The latest set of results from its parent, Jacobs Solutions show that divisional revenue in H1, the six months ended 28th June, increased by 6.6% yoy (FY24: -2.8%) to $947m on the back of higher public and private sector spending. More encouragingly for PA, the pace of its top line growth increased dramatically in the second quarter with headline turnover of $332.7m, up qoq and hoh by 6.8% and 15.4% respectively. Operating profit for the period improved by just over 10% yoy to $72.4m.
The figures published by Jacobs did not contain details of the movement in PA’s fee income since the start of the year. This more accurate gauge of performance equated to 81% of revenue FY24 and declined faster than reported turnover for the period. No constant currency reconciliation of PA’s top line growth was provided, nor was there a note of the changes in geographic composition of the firm’s business. Almost 90% of the division’s sales are generated outside the US and it is likely that the weakening of the US dollar since the start of 2025 will have contributed materially to the reported H1 uptick. Nonetheless, with around three quarters of PA’s total fee income earned in the UK, it is also reasonable to assume that the firm is experiencing demand for its services in this country strengthening significantly as the year progresses.
While no specific forward guidance on the full year outlook for PA was given, there had been a notable increase in the firm’s backlog of work as it entered the second half of 2025. At the end of Q2, the metric stood at $420m up 11% since the start of the FY; no mean feat in a market segment where activity remains sluggish as the purse strings on enterprise discretionary expenditure remained tightly drawn (see our latest Market Trends & Forecasts report for more detail).
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 09:35
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NEC Software Solutions (NECSWS) has acquired GIS (geographic information system) software, spatial data and consultancy services provider Cadcorp. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1991 and based in Stevenage, Cadcorp was featured in the ‘Ones to Watch’ section of TechMarketView’s latest Police Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts report. Its integrated geospatial software, Cadcorp SIS, comprises desktop, server, web-based GIS solutions, as well as a range of industry-specific applications and developer products.
The company has a strong presence in local authorities and public safety organisations across the UK, including policing, fire and rescue, councils and social housing. Recent contract awards include deals with Alliance Homes, Norfolk County Council, Croydon Council, Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police, and with Staffordshire, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, and Essex fire and rescue services. Cadcorp also operates in the energy and utilities, environment, and insurance sectors.
As a result of resource and capacity constraints, the need to derive deeper insight from data and make better-informed decisions has resulted in GIS and geospatial solutions becoming mission-critical across the UK public sector. The ongoing need to improve productivity and efficiency in public safety and local government (for example, crime analysis and resource deployment) is only going to intensify.
Although NECSWS already provided some location-based intelligence services (for example, GIS and gazetteer data), the acquisition will significantly enhance its proposition in this area. There are strong synergies between the two businesses, both in terms of the customers they serve and product solutions.
The deal also aligns with the company’s strategy of expanding the breadth of Evidence & Insights solutions across the public safety sector (see NECSWS + SSS: Integration and Innovation), building on last year’s acquisition of Riven (see NECSWS bolsters public safety portfolio with Riven acquisition).
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Posted by: UKHotViews Editor at 07:00
The Home Office has announced it is increasing the number of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) vans available to police forces in England. The ten new vans will be deployed to seven forces across the country, with the aim of catching high-harm criminals. The announcement follows news that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is scaling its use of LFR technology in London.
LFR concerns the checking of facial images in real-time using a live camera feed, generally in an uncontrolled public environment, against a database of people on a watch list (e.g., identify wanted or vulnerable individuals). As TechMarketView has discussed previously, the use of LFR has raised significant concerns about bias, privacy, and human rights and led to legal challenges (see MPs debate live facial recognition technology).
Despite the concerns, LFR technology will be an important tool in the fight against crime, particularly as it helps address police capacity and productivity challenges. The Home Office has reiterated that deployments must adhere to existing safeguards to ensure they are fair, legitimate, ethical and proportionate, and will follow guidance from the College of Policing.
The first operational deployment of overt, intelligence-led LFR by UK policing was by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 2016. Since then, seven other forces (Bedfordshire, Essex, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, North Wales, Northamptonshire, South Wales, and Suffolk) have used LFR. In some instances, this has been through borrowing LFR vans from other forces.
The ten new units will be deployed to Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey and Sussex (jointly), and Thames Valley and Hampshire & Isle of Wight (jointly). Following recent BlueLight Commercial contract awards to NEC Software Solutions UK (NECSWS), these vans will employ NEC’s NeoFace Watch technology.
This is the system used by majority of previous LFR deployments in the UK (apart from Essex and Suffolk), including in London. At the start of last month, the MPS announced it had made 1,035 arrests since the start of 2024 using LFR, including 93 registered sex offenders. Since then, it has announced plans to increase its use of LFR significantly, moving from the current situation of deploying LFR four times a week across two days, to up to ten deployments a week spread across five days.
We expect this expansion of LFR van deployment, the alignment of LFR with the government’s Safer Streets mission, and the recent BlueLight Commercial framework (see BlueLight Commercial names suppliers for £20m LFR framework) to accelerate adoption of LFR in the UK. However, the need for transparency, explainability and clear communication remains of paramount importance to the success of these deployments.
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The latest episode in TechMarketView’s series ofTotally Sustpodcasts seesSustainabilityViews’ Research Director, Craig Wentworth, interviewCésar Zayas(Head of Technology Strategy & Advisory for Sustainability at NTT DATA)about how the company’s holistic approach to carbon accounting helps companies demonstrate that good sustainability stewardship can be a proxy for good governance, underlying efficiency and resilience, and wider data-driven decision-making.
Tune in to discover how NTT DATA’s Beyond Net Zero carbon calculator goes beyond simple emissions tracking, using AI to spot operational anomalies and enable scenario planning across IT estates. By embedding sustainability metrics into everything from supply chain management to data centre operations, the company is helping clients discover that applying the ethos of ‘sustainability-by-design’ can have positive impacts business-wide.
A 5-minute snippet of the podcast is available to stream for free now onSoundCloud andSpotify (or you can play it in the widget below).
Subscribers to ourSustainabilityViewsresearch stream can stream or download thefull 32-minute versionof the episode. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Belinda Tewson to find out how you can access the research.
Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 10:04
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