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While clearly it's not ideal for them to be using XP wasn't the British government one of the purchasers of extended XP support? Has that ended now?

Yes that ended in April 2015. The then Government decided to end the contract under the guises of austerity.

I don't think it work out as a cost effective saving of course, as the NHS was badly hit by WannaCry as we all know.