Analysis · No. 1
What government is trying to buy, and who wins it.
Every contract award on Find a Tender since January 2021, in twenty charts.
Raw counts mislead
The Procurement Act put far more small contracts on the register from February 2025. So from here on we compare contracts worth £215,000 or more, and count public bodies rather than notices.
Award notices published each month
Find a Tender, January 2021 to October 2026, duplicates removed. Hover a bar for the month.
Show the numbers
| Month | Notices |
|---|---|
| 2021-01 | 606 |
| 2021-02 | 662 |
| 2021-03 | 1,040 |
| 2021-04 | 1,055 |
| 2021-05 | 829 |
| 2021-06 | 1,028 |
| 2021-07 | 1,208 |
| 2021-08 | 1,285 |
| 2021-09 | 1,083 |
| 2021-10 | 1,084 |
| 2021-11 | 835 |
| 2021-12 | 1,010 |
| 2022-01 | 1,047 |
| 2022-02 | 989 |
| 2022-03 | 1,250 |
| 2022-04 | 1,016 |
| 2022-05 | 1,623 |
| 2022-06 | 1,067 |
| 2022-07 | 1,133 |
| 2022-08 | 1,488 |
| 2022-09 | 1,241 |
| 2022-10 | 1,234 |
| 2022-11 | 1,256 |
| 2022-12 | 1,089 |
| 2023-01 | 50 |
| 2023-02 | 35 |
| 2023-03 | 47 |
| 2023-04 | 40 |
| 2023-05 | 37 |
| 2023-06 | 43 |
| 2023-07 | 57 |
| 2023-08 | 48 |
| 2023-09 | 40 |
| 2023-10 | 49 |
| 2023-11 | 34 |
| 2023-12 | 245 |
| 2024-01 | 53 |
| 2024-02 | 46 |
| 2024-03 | 46 |
| 2024-04 | 67 |
| 2024-05 | 78 |
| 2024-06 | 41 |
| 2024-07 | 136 |
| 2024-08 | 164 |
| 2024-09 | 100 |
| 2024-10 | 154 |
| 2024-11 | 104 |
| 2024-12 | 231 |
| 2025-01 | 117 |
| 2025-02 | 447 |
| 2025-03 | 2,084 |
| 2025-04 | 2,653 |
| 2025-05 | 2,694 |
| 2025-06 | 2,997 |
| 2025-07 | 3,920 |
| 2025-08 | 3,717 |
| 2025-09 | 3,981 |
| 2025-10 | 4,571 |
| 2025-11 | 3,824 |
| 2025-12 | 4,192 |
| 2026-01 | 4,443 |
| 2026-02 | 4,832 |
| 2026-03 | 6,417 |
| 2026-04 | 4,820 |
| 2026-05 | 4,239 |
| 2026-06 | 5,135 |
| 2026-07 | 5,915 |
| 2026-08 | 5,195 |
| 2026-09 | 5,526 |
| 2026-10 | 5,967 |
The problems government is paying to solve
We sort contract titles into 24 themes. Almost every theme grew, so we measure each one against the typical theme.
Which problems are drawing more attention
How fast the number of public bodies letting a contract of £215,000 or more on each theme grew between 2021–23 and 2025–26, against the typical theme. Zero means typical growth.
- Grew faster than typical
- Grew slower, or shrank
- Artificial intelligence+140%
- Cyber security+79%
- Net zero and decarbonisation+59%
- NHS waiting lists and diagnostics+42%
- Energy supply+26%
- Building safety and fire+26%
- Housing and homelessness+17%
- SEND and school transport+7%
- Mental health+6%
- Highways and roads+6%
- Cloud and software platforms+5%
- Children's social care0%
- Waste and recycling0%
- Domestic abuse and violence−1%
- Temporary staff and recruitment−4%
- Drugs, alcohol and public health−7%
- Consultancy and advice−14%
- Adult social care−16%
- Research and innovation−17%
- Flooding and climate adaptation−24%
- Data and analytics−25%
- Defence and security−26%
- Employment and skills−32%
- Insurance−36%
Themes are read from notice titles. Small themes move on small numbers: Artificial intelligence went from about 4 bodies a year to 26 in 2026.
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| Theme | Share of bodies, 2021–23 | 2025–26 | Against typical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence | 0.2% | 0.9% | +140% |
| Cyber security | 0.4% | 1.2% | +79% |
| Net zero and decarbonisation | 2.3% | 6.2% | +59% |
| NHS waiting lists and diagnostics | 1.9% | 4.7% | +42% |
| Energy supply | 1.3% | 2.8% | +26% |
| Building safety and fire | 2.4% | 5.1% | +26% |
| Housing and homelessness | 3.3% | 6.6% | +17% |
| SEND and school transport | 1.7% | 3.2% | +7% |
| Mental health | 4.0% | 7.3% | +6% |
| Highways and roads | 5.3% | 9.5% | +6% |
| Cloud and software platforms | 5.8% | 10.5% | +5% |
| Children's social care | 1.3% | 2.1% | +0% |
| Waste and recycling | 4.7% | 8.0% | +0% |
| Domestic abuse and violence | 1.4% | 2.4% | -1% |
| Temporary staff and recruitment | 3.4% | 5.6% | -4% |
| Drugs, alcohol and public health | 3.9% | 6.1% | -7% |
| Consultancy and advice | 6.1% | 8.9% | -14% |
| Adult social care | 4.4% | 6.3% | -16% |
| Research and innovation | 3.6% | 5.1% | -17% |
| Flooding and climate adaptation | 0.7% | 0.9% | -24% |
| Data and analytics | 3.2% | 4.1% | -25% |
| Defence and security | 0.9% | 1.2% | -26% |
| Employment and skills | 2.8% | 3.3% | -32% |
| Insurance | 3.2% | 3.5% | -36% |
Year by year: the risers and the laggards
Share of public bodies letting at least one contract of £215,000 or more on the theme. Each panel has its own scale. Hover a point for the year.
- Grew faster than typical
- Grew slower, or shrank
Artificial intelligence
0.3% → 1.1%
Cyber security
0.6% → 1.4%
Net zero and decarbonisation
2.7% → 7.2%
NHS waiting lists and diagnostics
1.5% → 5.2%
Energy supply
1.6% → 3.8%
Building safety and fire
2.5% → 6.2%
Insurance
3.6% → 3.9%
Employment and skills
3.1% → 3.7%
Defence and security
1.8% → 1.1%
Data and analytics
2.7% → 4.5%
Flooding and climate adaptation
0.6% → 1.0%
Research and innovation
4.1% → 6.1%
* 2026 runs to 4 November 2026.
Show the numbers
| Theme | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Cyber security | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 1.4% |
| Net zero and decarbonisation | 2.7% | 3.3% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 5.3% | 7.2% |
| NHS waiting lists and diagnostics | 1.5% | 1.8% | 2.5% | 2.4% | 4.1% | 5.2% |
| Energy supply | 1.6% | 1.8% | 0.5% | 1.4% | 1.8% | 3.8% |
| Building safety and fire | 2.5% | 2.6% | 2.0% | 1.4% | 3.9% | 6.2% |
| Insurance | 3.6% | 4.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 3.1% | 3.9% |
| Employment and skills | 3.1% | 2.4% | 3.0% | 2.4% | 2.9% | 3.7% |
| Defence and security | 1.8% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| Data and analytics | 2.7% | 3.1% | 3.9% | 2.7% | 3.8% | 4.5% |
| Flooding and climate adaptation | 0.6% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Research and innovation | 4.1% | 4.2% | 2.5% | 1.7% | 4.1% | 6.1% |
What they buy
Software and repair and maintenance have grown fastest among the big categories.
What public bodies buy, by category
Share of public bodies letting at least one contract of £215,000 or more in each category in a year. Categories reached by at least 6% of bodies in 2025–26.
- 2021–23 average
- 2025–26 average
- Construction work16→28%
- Health and social care22→27%
- Business services17→24%
- IT services12→18%
- Waste, cleaning, environment10→16%
- Software8→15%
- Architecture and engineering11→15%
- Repair and maintenance8→14%
- Vehicles and transport kit5→8%
- Education and training6→8%
- Medical equipment and medicines6→8%
- Finance and insurance5→7%
- Building materials4→7%
- Catering and hotels4→6%
Categories are the buyer’s own Common Procurement Vocabulary code, at its broadest level. Every category rises a little because each body now publishes more notices. Compare the gap between the dots.
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| Category | 2021–23 | 2025–26 |
|---|---|---|
| Construction work | 16.5% | 28.4% |
| Health and social care | 22.2% | 26.9% |
| Business services | 17.2% | 23.6% |
| IT services | 12.5% | 17.5% |
| Waste, cleaning, environment | 10.1% | 16.0% |
| Software | 7.7% | 15.4% |
| Architecture and engineering | 10.9% | 14.8% |
| Repair and maintenance | 8.0% | 14.5% |
| Vehicles and transport kit | 5.4% | 8.5% |
| Education and training | 5.7% | 8.3% |
| Medical equipment and medicines | 5.5% | 7.7% |
| Finance and insurance | 5.1% | 7.0% |
| Building materials | 4.0% | 6.6% |
| Catering and hotels | 4.0% | 6.1% |
Who wins
It depends almost entirely on what is being bought.
Many one-off winners, and a few regulars
Every supplier named on an award since 2021, grouped by how many times it has won.
Number of suppliers
Their share of all wins
Read across: 36,921 suppliers won once and together took 22% of wins. The 520 that won 26 times or more took 18%.
Who wins, by what is being bought
Share of wins since 2021, by how many different public bodies the winning supplier has won from. Sorted by national firms’ share.
- Local: won from 1–4 bodies
- Regional: 5–24 bodies
- National: 25 or more
- Software46%32%22%
- IT services53%28%19%
- Architecture and engineering57%29%14%
- Business services59%29%12%
- Medical equipment and medicines47%42%11%
- Repair and maintenance56%32%11%
- Waste, cleaning, environment54%35%11%
- Construction work72%23%
- Education and training70%26%
- Health and social care72%24%
- Transport services94%
Where a notice names several winners, each gets an equal part of one win, so a framework naming forty firms counts once, not forty times.
Show the numbers
| Category | Local | Regional | National | Different winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 45.8% | 32.0% | 22.2% | 2,725 |
| IT services | 52.7% | 28.2% | 19.1% | 3,904 |
| Architecture and engineering | 57.1% | 29.0% | 14.0% | 4,202 |
| Business services | 59.2% | 28.9% | 11.9% | 7,544 |
| Medical equipment and medicines | 46.9% | 41.7% | 11.4% | 2,503 |
| Repair and maintenance | 56.4% | 32.5% | 11.2% | 3,653 |
| Waste, cleaning, environment | 54.1% | 35.1% | 10.8% | 2,337 |
| Construction work | 72.1% | 23.4% | 4.5% | 7,528 |
| Education and training | 69.6% | 26.1% | 4.3% | 4,726 |
| Health and social care | 72.0% | 23.8% | 4.1% | 11,544 |
| Transport services | 93.5% | 6.2% | 0.3% | 2,805 |
The suppliers that win almost everywhere
Number of different public bodies each supplier has won from, 2021–2026.
The names that turn up most widely, 2025–26
Suppliers winning from the most different public bodies in each category since January 2025. The number in brackets is the number of bodies.
| Category | Most widely used suppliers |
|---|---|
| Software | Softcat plc (108), Phoenix Software Limited (83), Civica UK Limited (58), Access UK Limited (45) |
| Business services | KPMG LLP (55), Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited (38), BDO LLP (33), Bevan Brittan LLP (33) |
| Architecture and engineering | AECOM Limited (65), Ove Arup & Partners Limited (55), WSP UK Limited (52), Ridge and Partners LLP (42) |
| Waste, cleaning, environment | Biffa Waste Services Limited (40), Suez Recycling And Recovery UK Ltd (31), Veolia Es (UK) Limited (29), Churchill Contract Services Ltd (23) |
| Medical equipment and medicines | Medtronic Limited (25), Becton, Dickinson U.K. Limited (23), B. Braun Medical Limited (22), Boston Scientific Limited (19) |
| Health and social care | Barnardo's (42), Change Grow Live (36), Action for Children (32), Turning Point (Services) Ltd (28) |
| Construction work | Bell Group Limited (47), Cardo (South) Limited (23), Axis Europe Limited (21), D R Jones Yeovil Ltd. (20) |
| Transport services | 24x7 Ltd (15), 24 X 7 Ltd. (11), Stagecoach (North West) Limited (7), Veezu Limited (7) |
Names are as buyers wrote them on the notice, so one firm can appear under two spellings.
What has changed for suppliers
How three things have moved: national firms’ share of wins, the NHS’s own providers and shared awards.
National firms’ share of wins
Wins going to suppliers that have won from 25 or more public bodies.
- All contracts
- £215,000 or more
Since 2025 the all-contracts line includes many small purchases newly published under the Act, often software renewals sold through big resellers. * 2026 runs to 4 November 2026.
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| Year | All contracts | £215,000 or more |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6.9% | 10.1% |
| 2022 | 7.5% | 11.2% |
| 2023 | 7.7% | 10.9% |
| 2024 | 8.1% | 12.1% |
| 2025 | 9.0% | 10.5% |
| 2026 | 10.1% | 11.4% |
Health and social care: who the NHS and councils buy from
Share of health and social care wins going to other public bodies (mostly NHS trusts) and to charities and social enterprises.
- Public bodies
- Charities
Since the NHS Provider Selection Regime started in January 2024, commissioners can keep a service with an existing provider without a full competition.
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| Year | Public bodies | Charities |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7.5% | 5.1% |
| 2022 | 6.1% | 6.2% |
| 2023 | 6.1% | 1.6% |
| 2024 | 15.0% | 7.6% |
| 2025 | 12.4% | 6.8% |
| 2026 | 13.0% | 7.4% |
How often an award is shared between several firms
Share of contracts of £215,000 or more naming more than one winner. This is usually a framework, where approved firms then compete for each job.
Part of the change since 2025 comes from how the new notices record frameworks.
The small contracts
Since the Act, contracts under £215,000 go on Find a Tender too. They are 64% of awards since then. Before the Act most went to Contracts Finder, so Find a Tender has nothing earlier to compare them with. This section covers February 2025 onwards only.
Most awards are now small ones
Awards stating a value since the Procurement Act came in on 24 February 2025, by size. Hover a bar for the number.
- Under £215,000
- £215,000 or more
Most bodies do not have to publish awards below about £30,000 (central government must publish from £12,000). So the smallest band is incomplete.
Show the numbers
| Size | Awards | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under £30,000 | 15,378 | 19.7% |
| £30,000 to £100,000 | 23,781 | 30.5% |
| £100,000 to £215,000 | 10,969 | 14.1% |
| £215,000 to £1m | 13,850 | 17.8% |
| £1m or more | 13,960 | 17.9% |
Who wins the small contracts
Share of wins since 24 February 2025, by how many different public bodies the winning supplier has won from.
- Local: won from 1–4 bodies
- Regional: 5–24 bodies
- National: 25 or more
- Under £215,00067%24%9%
- £215,000 or more57%32%11%
37% of small-contract wins went to a supplier winning for the first time since 2021, against 28% of larger ones. Start-ups took 8% of small-contract wins and 6% of larger ones, school and patient transport aside.
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| Contract size | Local | Regional | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under £215,000 | 66.7% | 24.4% | 8.9% |
| £215,000 or more | 57.1% | 31.9% | 11.0% |
Where small contracts are the norm
Share of each category’s awards worth under £215,000, since 24 February 2025. Categories with at least 500 awards stating a value. The bars run from 0 to 100%.
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| Category | Under £215,000 | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Research and development | 81.9% | 1,866 |
| Lab and scientific kit | 77.2% | 1,524 |
| Transport services | 77.2% | 4,684 |
| Education and training | 75.9% | 3,484 |
| Business services | 72.5% | 7,645 |
| Software | 72.2% | 4,157 |
| Architecture and engineering | 71.3% | 4,249 |
| Industrial machinery | 71.0% | 931 |
| Culture, leisure, sport | 71.0% | 517 |
| Electrical equipment | 68.9% | 975 |
| Repair and maintenance | 68.5% | 3,895 |
| Furniture and furnishings | 68.3% | 901 |
| Radio, telecoms kit | 66.5% | 696 |
| Office and computer equipment | 65.4% | 798 |
| IT services | 65.3% | 5,089 |
| Medical equipment and medicines | 63.9% | 2,563 |
| Community and personal services | 63.3% | 1,013 |
| Building materials | 62.8% | 1,185 |
| Security, fire and defence kit | 61.1% | 635 |
| Finance and insurance | 60.7% | 1,151 |
| Construction work | 60.2% | 8,964 |
| Grounds, farming, forestry | 57.7% | 601 |
| Vehicles and transport kit | 56.1% | 1,689 |
| Public administration | 52.3% | 644 |
| Waste, cleaning, environment | 50.2% | 2,049 |
| Health and social care | 49.2% | 11,153 |
| Catering and hotels | 43.9% | 563 |
The public bodies spreading small contracts most widely
Number of different suppliers each body has awarded a contract under £215,000 to since 24 February 2025.
Counting suppliers rather than awards keeps out bodies that post one service many times over, such as school transport route by route.
Can start-ups and scale-ups get in?
67% of companies on the register are under ten years old. Start-ups and scale-ups win about 8% of public contracts.
Start-ups’ and scale-ups’ share of wins, year by year
Wins going to companies under ten years old when they won.
- All, except transport
- £215,000 or more
The first line leaves out school and patient transport. Young taxi and minibus firms win 37% of it, and a few councils post it route by route, which swings the total. * 2026 runs to 4 November 2026.
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| Year | All, except transport | £215,000 or more |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7.5% | 5.9% |
| 2022 | 7.3% | 5.9% |
| 2023 | 8.4% | 9.9% |
| 2024 | 7.2% | 8.0% |
| 2025 | 7.5% | 6.1% |
| 2026 | 6.5% | 6.1% |
Young companies are common on the register but rare among winners
Company age: all live companies on the Companies House register, against companies that won public contracts in 2025–26 (age when they won).
Companies on the register
Share of contract wins
Register as at 1 November 2026. Years since incorporation. This chart counts every winner matched to the register, including young subsidiaries of big firms, listed companies and others the start-up test leaves out, so its share for companies under ten years old is higher than the 8% start-up figure. Bars are rounded, so they may not add up exactly.
Where start-ups and scale-ups win
Share of wins going to start-ups and scale-ups, 2025–26, by what is being bought. Categories with at least 1,000 wins.
The problems start-ups and scale-ups are winning work on
Themes where start-ups and scale-ups take the largest share of wins, 2025–26.
How long it takes to land the first contract
Small companies set up since January 2021 that have won a public contract: time from incorporation to their first win.
3,299 companies; half won within 2.5 years. Only firms that have already won are counted, so the real wait is longer.
If you sell to government
- Follow the problems. AI, cyber security, net zero and NHS waiting lists are drawing in new buyers fastest.
- Know your market. Care, transport and construction are won locally. Software usually runs through a national reseller.
- Start small. 37% of contracts under £215,000 since the Act went to a supplier winning for the first time, against 28% of larger ones.
- The first contract is the hard one. Six in ten winners have only ever won once, and young companies that do win typically wait about 2 years from setting up.
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How we did this
Method and caveats
Data. Every award and contract notice on Find a Tender, 1 January 2021 to 4 November 2026: 143,148 notices, 116,454 after removing duplicates (same title, buyer and value). Contracts Finder is not included. 2026 is a part year.
Like with like. Trends use contracts of £215,000 or more (close to the council threshold of £214,904 that applied in 2024 and 2025; it has been £207,720 since January 2026, but we keep one cut-off so the years compare) and count public bodies, not notices. The earlier period is always 2021–23. The later period is the latest two years.
Small contracts (under £215,000) count only from 24 February 2025, when the Procurement Act brought them onto Find a Tender. Before that most were published on Contracts Finder, which this analysis does not read, so small contracts have no trend line. A “first-time” winner is one with no earlier award on Find a Tender since 2021. Some will have won small contracts on Contracts Finder before.
Themes come from keywords in notice titles only. About a third of notices match none. A theme’s growth is compared with the median of all 24. Categories are the first Common Procurement Vocabulary code on each notice, at its top level.
Winners are named as on the notice, tidied of “Ltd”, punctuation and accents. Spelling variants of one firm still count twice. A firm’s reach is how many different buyers it has won from. Where a notice names several winners, each gets an equal part of one win. Legal form is read from the name and misses many charities.
Start-ups and scale-ups are companies under ten years old when they won, the same test as our analysis of ministers’ meetings and the Start-up Access Index. Each is matched by name to the Companies House register and must be a private limited company, not dormant, in a trading industry. Companies the register cannot settle, many of them foreign, also count when they are on a start-up list (the Future Fund, UK Research and Innovation grants, Wikidata) or a check of each one found a start-up that raised money from outside investors, has fewer than 200 staff or was founded in the past five years, as in the meetings analysis. About 470 named big corporates never count, nor do investors, trade bodies or companies already listed on a stock market; being owned by investors or another firm does not by itself rule a company out. A company does not count when its recent registration does not mark a new venture: when a company registered long before controls it (an established group’s subsidiary), or when its accounts show 200 or more staff within three years of registering (a running business taken over, such as one bought out of administration). About 73% of wins match a company. Charities, public bodies, sole traders and names that two companies share do not match. The register lists live companies only, so we miss start-ups that won and have since closed.
Values are not added up: a framework states the ceiling for the whole arrangement, often far above what is spent.
The theme word lists
| Theme | Words and phrases in the title |
|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence | AI hearing), artificial intelligence, machine learning, LLM, generative AI, copilot, chatbot |
| Cyber security | cyber, penetration test, SOC, security operations cent, ransomware, SIEM |
| Data and analytics | data), analytics, dashboard, business intelligence, power bi |
| Cloud and software platforms | cloud, SaaS, software, licen[cs]e, microsoft, ERP, CRM, case management system |
| Net zero and decarbonisation | net zero, decarboni, carbon, retrofit, heat pump, solar, photovoltaic, PV, insulation, energy efficien, EV, electric vehicle, charg(ing, e ?point), low emission, zero emission, heat network, LED lighting |
| Flooding and climate adaptation | flood, coastal, climate (adapt, resilien, change, risk), sustainable drainage, SuDS, heatwave, drought |
| Housing and homelessness | temporary accommodation, homeless, rough sleep, housing support, supported housing, damp, mould, void, social housing, housing management, repairs and maintenance |
| Building safety and fire | fire risk, fire safety, cladding, building safety, fire door, fire alarm, sprinkler, asbestos |
| SEND and school transport | SEN, SEND, home to school, school transport, passenger transport, taxi, minibus, escort, pupil |
| Children's social care | child(ren)?'?s? (residential, home, placement, social), foster, looked after, care leaver, unaccompanied, children in care, family hub, early help, kinship |
| Adult social care | domiciliary, home care, homecare, care at home, supported living, care home, residential care, nursing care, extra care, reablement, learning disabilit, physical disabilit, 65+, older people, dementia, carers |
| Mental health | mental health, wellbeing, well-being, counsell, psycholog, talking therap, suicide, crisis |
| Drugs, alcohol and public health | substance, drug, alcohol, sexual health, smoking, tobacco, vap, weight management, obesity, health check, public health, 0-19, health visit |
| Domestic abuse and violence | domestic abuse, domestic violence, violence against, VAWG, sexual violence, refuge, serious violence |
| NHS waiting lists and diagnostics | elective, diagnostic (service, centre, imaging), community diagnostic, radiolog, MRI, CT, endoscop, pathology, waiting list, ophthalm, cataract |
| Employment and skills | employment support, employability, skills, apprentice, into work, jobs?, adult education, ESOL, bootcamp, NEET |
| Consultancy and advice | consultan, advisory, adviser, advisor, professional services, management support, programme management, business case, feasibility, review of |
| Temporary staff and recruitment | recruitment, agency staff, agency worker, temporary staff, locum, interim, staffing, work(ers, force) |
| Highways and roads | highway, road, resurfac, pothole, carriageway, street light, traffic, bridge, footway, winter maint, gritting |
| Defence and security | defen[cs]e, military, army, RAF, navy, naval, MOD, munition, weapon, submarine, aircraft, drone, UAV, Dstl |
| Research and innovation | research, innovation, feasibility study, pilot, trial, evaluation, R&D, prototype |
| Energy supply | electricity supply, gas supply, supply of (electricity, gas, energy), energy supply, fuel, utilities |
| Waste and recycling | waste, recycl, refuse, landfill, food waste, litter |
| Insurance | insurance, insurer, claims handling, broker |