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Every body held on this register, or stamped NOT PRINTED. Inclusion is not an allegation. Council ALEOs are PARTIAL and live on My street. There is no single as-at for every row.

  • 413 live

    Bodies on this register. NPBD directory 17 August 2026. Owned legal persons 25 August 2026.

  • 305 national

    Live rows with ALEOs excluded. Same cut as the Data download.

  • 108 ALEOs · PARTIAL

    Council family companies. Seed only. Cards live on My street, not this national census.

  • 18 owned cards

    Minister-owned and controlled companies. Each is its own pot. Open the Owned chapter.

  • 11 NOT PRINTED

    A 25 August lock counted 424 live rows. This register holds 413. The difference is not invented as names.

  • 2 not live

    Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal (merged). Burntisland Fabrications Limited (BiFab) (abolished). Not extra live bodies.

Arithmetic: 413 live − 108 ALEOs = 305 national. 424 − 413 = 11 NOT PRINTED. ALEO 108 is not a complete universe.

Core Scottish Government 75

Directorates and ministerial portfolios.

Owned and controlled 18

Minister-owned companies and NPBD public corporations. Not the NDPB sample.

National public bodies 86

Agencies, NDPBs, commissioners, tribunals. Directory envelopes are not outturn.

NHS and care 52

Territorial and special boards, IJBs. Baseline funding is an envelope.

Justice and emergency 12

SPA, Police Scotland, SFRS, SPS, COPFS, courts.

32 councils 32

Local authority corporate bodies. Desks live on My street.

Colleges 26

Funded, not owned — unless the accounts say otherwise.

Investment and grant machines 4

SNIB, SE, HIE, SFC. Portfolio companies are payees, not SG entities.

Council ALEOs 108 · PARTIAL

Local family companies. Cards live on My street, not this national census.

Names below are the seed. They are not a complete ALEO universe and they are not national owned companies.

NOT PRINTED

11 names from a 25 August lock of 424 live rows are not on this 413-row register. We do not invent the names. They stay NOT PRINTED until a public paper names them onto this desk.

  • Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal — merged. Not a live extra body.
  • Burntisland Fabrications Limited (BiFab) — abolished. Not a live extra body.