{
  "date_fixed": "2026-10-30",
  "compute": {
    "currency": "GBP",
    "price_date": "2026-10-30",
    "bands": [
      {
        "label": "Under GBP 500",
        "minimum_inclusive": 0,
        "maximum_exclusive": 500
      },
      {
        "label": "GBP 500-1,999",
        "minimum_inclusive": 500,
        "maximum_exclusive": 2000
      },
      {
        "label": "GBP 2,000-9,999",
        "minimum_inclusive": 2000,
        "maximum_exclusive": 10000
      },
      {
        "label": "GBP 10,000-99,999",
        "minimum_inclusive": 10000,
        "maximum_exclusive": 100000
      },
      {
        "label": "GBP 100,000 or more",
        "minimum_inclusive": 100000,
        "maximum_exclusive": null
      }
    ],
    "basis": "Current publicly listed UK purchase price including VAT for the documented training accelerator model and memory variant, multiplied by the actual simultaneous device count. Where only a complete CPU laptop is usable and its make/model is known, price that device and label the basis. The accelerator price excludes its host system. Record new/used condition; use a used UK listing when new hardware is no longer sold. Rental charges are recorded separately, not used as the hardware purchase price.",
    "missing": "Unknown if actual hardware, count, memory variant or comparable UK price cannot be established; do not borrow hardware from another model or treat a recommended device as an actual run.",
    "multiple": "Per-model run records retained. A person appears once in each evidenced band used for their UK-built cohort models; report multiple-response totals and unknowns explicitly. Sequentially replaced devices are separate runs, not a simultaneous array."
  },
  "ai_centre_cities": [
    "Cambridge",
    "Oxford",
    "London",
    "Southampton",
    "Bristol",
    "Edinburgh",
    "Leeds",
    "Manchester"
  ],
  "ai_centre_rule": "A training-period locality within one of the eight city areas explicitly named for AI specialisation in the UK government's UK Technology capabilities 2024 brochure: Cambridge, Oxford, Greater London, Southampton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester. Use city boundaries (Greater London for London), not the whole South East or a surrounding county. Elsewhere is 'outside the fixed centre list'; a location too broad to decide is unknown.",
  "ai_centre_source": "https://paas-s3-broker-prod-lon-8db94025-3db3-41df-9a2a-fbb251b24433.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/UK_Tech_capabilities_2024_HPO_Brochure_A5_Digital.pdf",
  "deprivation_rule": "Most deprived 20% of local authorities within the relevant UK nation's latest published official multiple-deprivation index, using rank of average score. Compare rank/N <= 0.20. Use the builder's documented training-period locality, never a current place substituted for it. If only a larger area is known or no comparable authority summary is available, classify unknown. Record neighbourhood deprivation separately only when a public training locality supports it; do not infer a neighbourhood from a town.",
  "local_authority_deprivation": {
    "Cambridge": {
      "rank_of_average_score": 257,
      "authority_count": 296,
      "most_deprived_fifth": false,
      "source_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6917412ebc34c86ce4e6e7fc/File_10_-_IoD2025_Local_Authority_District_Summaries__lower-tier__v2.xlsx"
    },
    "Gosport": {
      "rank_of_average_score": 101,
      "authority_count": 296,
      "most_deprived_fifth": false,
      "source_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6917412ebc34c86ce4e6e7fc/File_10_-_IoD2025_Local_Authority_District_Summaries__lower-tier__v2.xlsx"
    },
    "Oxford": {
      "rank_of_average_score": 208,
      "authority_count": 296,
      "most_deprived_fifth": false,
      "source_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6917412ebc34c86ce4e6e7fc/File_10_-_IoD2025_Local_Authority_District_Summaries__lower-tier__v2.xlsx"
    }
  },
  "schooling": {
    "definition": "Primary or secondary schooling in the UK; university study is recorded under route, not substituted for schooling.",
    "categories": [
      "Yes",
      "No",
      "Unknown"
    ],
    "no_requires": "A documented schooling history locating schooling outside the UK, not a guess from name or nationality."
  },
  "education_context_source": "https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/widening-participation-in-higher-education/2024-25",
  "education_context_scope": "England state-school pupils aged15 in2020/21 followed toage19 in2024/25; source release9July2026. The three cited rows are context, not developer demographics."
}