diff --git a/mdx/uk/scopes.xsl b/mdx/uk/scopes.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e2ca292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdx/uk/scopes.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+	scopes.xsl
+	
+	XSL stylesheet that handles the UK federation's approach to Shibboleth
+	scope extensions.
+	
+-->
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
+    xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
+    xmlns:members="http://ukfederation.org.uk/2007/01/members"
+	xmlns:shibmeta="urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0"
+
+	xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+	exclude-result-prefixes="members">
+
+	<!--Force UTF-8 encoding for the output.-->
+	<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no" method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
+
+    <!--
+        The "members" document is passed in as a parmeter; extract outsourced scope lists from it.
+    -->
+    <xsl:param name="membersDocument"/>
+    <xsl:variable name="outsourcedScopes"
+        select="$membersDocument//members:Member/members:Scopes[members:Entity]"/>
+
+    <!--
+        Extend the scope list contained within an IdP's entity-level Extensions element
+        with any outsourced scopes provided by the member list. 
+    -->
+    <xsl:template match="md:EntityDescriptor[md:IDPSSODescriptor]/md:Extensions">
+        <xsl:copy>
+            <!-- copy everything from within the original element -->
+            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
+            <!-- copy scopes from member outsource records -->
+            <xsl:variable name="entityID" select="ancestor::md:EntityDescriptor/@entityID"/>
+            <xsl:for-each select="$outsourcedScopes[members:Entity = $entityID]/members:Scope">
+                <xsl:text>    </xsl:text>
+                <xsl:element name="shibmeta:Scope">
+                    <xsl:attribute name="regexp">false</xsl:attribute>
+                    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
+                </xsl:element>
+                <xsl:text>&#10;    </xsl:text>
+            </xsl:for-each>
+        </xsl:copy>
+    </xsl:template>
+
+    <!--
+        If an IdP's SSO or AA roles are missing Extensions (and Scope extensions in
+        particular) then manufacture them as a combination of the EntityDescriptor's
+        overall scope extensions and any outsourced scopes provided by the member list.
+    -->
+    <xsl:template match="md:IDPSSODescriptor[not(md:Extensions)] |
+                         md:AttributeAuthorityDescriptor[not(md:Extensions)]">
+		<xsl:copy>
+		    <xsl:variable name="entityID" select="ancestor::md:EntityDescriptor/@entityID"/>
+		    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
+			<xsl:text>&#10;        </xsl:text>
+			<xsl:element name="Extensions" namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata">
+				<!-- copy scopes from EntityDescriptor extensions -->
+			    <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::md:EntityDescriptor/md:Extensions/shibmeta:Scope">
+					<xsl:text>&#10;            </xsl:text>
+					<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
+				</xsl:for-each>
+			    <!-- copy scopes from member outsource records -->
+			    <xsl:for-each select="$outsourcedScopes[members:Entity = $entityID]/members:Scope">
+			        <xsl:text>&#10;            </xsl:text>
+			    	<xsl:element name="shibmeta:Scope">
+			    		<xsl:attribute name="regexp">false</xsl:attribute>
+			    		<xsl:value-of select="."/>
+			    	</xsl:element>
+			    </xsl:for-each>
+			    <xsl:text>&#10;        </xsl:text>
+			</xsl:element>
+			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
+		</xsl:copy>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	<!--
+		If an IdP's SSO or AA roles already includes an Extensions element, this may
+		already contain extensions other than scopes.  We need to make sure that
+		if it does not also contain scopes, then any scopes declared at the entity
+		level are copied down, and any outsourced scopes provided by the member
+        list are imported.
+	-->
+	<xsl:template match="md:IDPSSODescriptor/md:Extensions |
+						 md:AttributeAuthorityDescriptor/md:Extensions">
+		<xsl:copy>
+            <xsl:variable name="entityID" select="ancestor::md:EntityDescriptor/@entityID"/>
+			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
+			<xsl:if test="not(shibmeta:Scope)">
+				<!-- copy scopes from EntityDescriptor extensions -->
+				<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::md:EntityDescriptor/md:Extensions/shibmeta:Scope">
+					<xsl:text>    </xsl:text>
+					<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
+					<xsl:text>&#10;        </xsl:text>
+				</xsl:for-each>
+                <!-- copy scopes from member outsource records -->
+                <xsl:for-each select="$outsourcedScopes[members:Entity = $entityID]/members:Scope">
+                    <xsl:text>    </xsl:text>
+                    <xsl:element name="shibmeta:Scope">
+                        <xsl:attribute name="regexp">false</xsl:attribute>
+                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
+                    </xsl:element>
+                    <xsl:text>&#10;        </xsl:text>
+                </xsl:for-each>
+			</xsl:if>			
+		</xsl:copy>
+	</xsl:template>
+
+    <!--
+        *********************************************
+        ***                                       ***
+        ***   D E F A U L T   T E M P L A T E S   ***
+        ***                                       ***
+        *********************************************
+    -->
+    
+    
+	<!--By default, copy text blocks, comments and attributes unchanged.-->
+	<xsl:template match="text()|comment()|@*">
+		<xsl:copy/>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	<!--By default, copy all elements from the input to the output, along with their attributes and contents.-->
+	<xsl:template match="*">
+		<xsl:copy>
+			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
+		</xsl:copy>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/mdx/uk/uk-beans.xml b/mdx/uk/uk-beans.xml
index 369d1edc..db5143aa 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/uk-beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/uk-beans.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,25 @@
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd">
 
+    <!--
+        membersResource
+        
+        A Resource referencing the members.xml document.
+    -->
+    <bean id="membersResource" class="org.opensaml.util.resource.FilesystemResource" lazy-init="true">
+        <constructor-arg value="#{ systemProperties['basedir'] }/xml/members.xml"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    <!--
+        membersDocument
+        
+        This bean contains the contents of the members.xml file as a DOM Document.
+    -->
+    <bean id="membersDocument" class="net.shibboleth.ext.spring.factory.DomDocumentFactoryBean" lazy-init="true">
+        <property name="documentResource" ref="membersResource"/>
+        <property name="parserPool" ref="parserPool"/>
+    </bean>
+    
     <!--
         members
         
diff --git a/mdx/uk/uk-collect.xml b/mdx/uk/uk-collect.xml
index 7c3e5f95..d43941ff 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/uk-collect.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/uk-collect.xml
@@ -20,21 +20,15 @@
     <import resource="uk-beans.xml"/>
 
     <!--
-        filterDeletedEntities
+        fetchUkFragmentFiles
         
-        Remove entity items which have the ukfedlabel:DeletedEntity label on them.
-        This convention will be replaced at some point by the files not being available
-        for collection in the first place.
+        Collects all the UK metadata "fragment files" from the /entities directory.
+        
+        Each fragment file contains a single EntityDescriptor.  The name of each
+        eligible file matches a particular regular expression.
     -->
-    <bean id="filterDeletedEntities" class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.XPathFilteringStage"
-        init-method="initialize" lazy-init="true">
-        <property name="id" value="filterDeletedEntities"/>
-        <constructor-arg name="expression" value="//ukfedlabel:DeletedEntity"/>
-        <constructor-arg name="prefixMappings" ref="commonNamespaces"/>
-    </bean>
-    
     <bean id="fetchUkFragmentFiles" class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.DomFilesystemSourceStage"
-        init-method="initialize" lazy-init="true">
+        init-method="initialize">
         <property name="id" value="fetchUkFragmentFiles"/>
         <property name="parserPool" ref="parserPool"/>
         <property name="source">
@@ -49,6 +43,52 @@
         </property>
     </bean>
     
+    <!--
+        filterDeletedEntities
+        
+        Remove entity items which have the ukfedlabel:DeletedEntity label on them.
+        This convention will be replaced at some point by the files not being available
+        for collection in the first place.
+    -->
+    <bean id="filterDeletedEntities" class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.XPathFilteringStage"
+        init-method="initialize">
+        <property name="id" value="filterDeletedEntities"/>
+        <constructor-arg name="expression" value="//ukfedlabel:DeletedEntity"/>
+        <constructor-arg name="prefixMappings" ref="commonNamespaces"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    <!--
+        processScopes
+        
+        This stage normalises scope handling in two ways particular to the UK
+        federation:
+        
+        * we make all three potential scope lists equivalent (on the entity, on
+          the IDPSSODescriptor and on the AttributeAuthority)
+          
+        * we inject scopes "pushed" to entities from the members.xml file
+        
+        This transform can be run on individual EntityDescriptors or on an
+        aggregate EntitiesDescriptor.
+    -->
+    <bean id="processScopes" class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.XSLTransformationStage"
+        init-method="initialize">
+        <property name="id" value="processScopes"/>
+        <property name="xslResource">
+            <bean class="org.opensaml.util.resource.FilesystemResource">
+                <constructor-arg value="#{ systemProperties['basedir'] }/mdx/uk/scopes.xsl"/>
+            </bean>
+        </property>
+        <property name="transformParameters">
+            <map>
+                <entry key="membersDocument" value-ref="membersDocument"/>
+            </map>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+    
+    <!--
+        pipeline
+    -->
     <bean id="pipeline" class="net.shibboleth.metadata.pipeline.SimplePipeline">
         <property name="id" value="pipeline"/>
         <property name="stages">
@@ -59,6 +99,17 @@
                 <ref bean="CHECK.std"/>
                 <ref bean="errorAnnouncingFilter"/><!-- should be fatal -->
                 <ref bean="assemble"/>
+
+                <!--
+                    Process scopes on the entities.  Because the transform performs
+                    a fairly heavyweight extraction operation on the members document
+                    before applying the results, this is best done on the resulting
+                    aggregate so that the extraction happens only once.
+                    
+                    A better long-term alternative would be to build support for
+                    this on a per-entity or per-owner basis into the Members bean.
+                -->
+                <ref bean="processScopes"/>
                 
                 <!--
                     It's much faster to run this check on the EntitiesDescriptor because it