diff --git a/mdx/common-beans.xml b/mdx/common-beans.xml
index 5a664007..001f7210 100644
--- a/mdx/common-beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/common-beans.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
     -->
     <import resource="mda-beans.xml"/>
 
+    <!--
+        Pick up UK federation MDA beans.
+    -->
+    <import resource="ukf-beans.xml"/>
+
     <!--
         ***********************************
         ***                             ***
@@ -140,17 +145,6 @@
     <bean id="X509CertificateFactoryBean" abstract="true"
         class="net.shibboleth.ext.spring.factory.X509CertificateFactoryBean"/>
 
-    <!-- *** Parent beans for ukf-mda. *** -->
-
-    <bean id="EntityAttributeAddingStage" abstract="true" parent="stage_parent"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.mdattr.EntityAttributeAddingStage"/>
-
-    <bean id="SAMLStringElementCheckingStage" abstract="true" parent="stage_parent"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.SAMLStringElementCheckingStage"/>
-
-    <bean id="X509ConsistentNameValidator" abstract="true" parent="mda.validator_parent"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.validate.X509ConsistentNameValidator"/>
-        
     <!-- *** Default Shibboleth component bean id property from Spring bean id *** -->
     <bean class="net.shibboleth.ext.spring.config.IdentifiableBeanPostProcessor" lazy-init="false"/>
     
diff --git a/mdx/uk/beans.xml b/mdx/uk/beans.xml
index 319a65ac..a1a450b0 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/beans.xml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
             </bean>
         </property>
         <property name="sourceFileFilter">
-            <bean class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.RegexFileFilter">
+            <bean parent="ukf.RegexFileFilter">
                 <constructor-arg value="uk\d{6}.xml"/>
             </bean>
         </property>
@@ -182,8 +182,7 @@
         
         Checks that entities are owned by UK federation members.
     -->
-    <bean id="check_owner" parent="stage_parent"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.EntityOwnerCheckingStage"
+    <bean id="check_owner" parent="ukf.EntityOwnerCheckingStage"
         p:members-ref="uk_members"/>
     
     <!--
@@ -241,8 +240,7 @@
     <!--
         Populate UKId values from entities.
     -->
-    <bean id="uk_populateIds" parent="stage_parent"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.EntityDescriptorUKIdPopulationStage"/>
+    <bean id="uk_populateIds" parent="ukf.EntityDescriptorUKIdPopulationStage"/>
     
 
     <!--
@@ -253,7 +251,7 @@
     <bean id="uk_assemble" parent="mda.EntitiesDescriptorAssemblerStage">
         <property name="descriptorName" ref="uk_federation_uri"/>
         <property name="itemOrderingStrategy">
-            <bean class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.UKEntityOrderingStrategy"/>
+            <bean parent="ukf.UKEntityOrderingStrategy"/>
         </property>
     </bean>
     
@@ -278,8 +276,7 @@
                 <!--
                     Inject scopes "pushed" to entities from the members.xml file.
                 -->
-                <bean id="scopes_inject" parent="stage_parent"
-                    class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.ScopeInjectionStage"
+                <bean id="scopes_inject" parent="ukf.ScopeInjectionStage"
                     p:members-ref="uk_members"/>
 
                 <ref bean="populateItemIds"/>
@@ -303,7 +300,7 @@
                     <property name="selectedItemPipeline">
                         <bean id="selectedItemPipeline" parent="mda.SimplePipeline">
                             <property name="stages">
-                                <bean id="addHideFromDiscovery" parent="EntityAttributeAddingStage"
+                                <bean id="addHideFromDiscovery" parent="ukf.EntityAttributeAddingStage"
                                     p:attributeValue="http://refeds.org/category/hide-from-discovery"
                                     p:addingFirstChild="true"/>
                             </property>
@@ -335,7 +332,7 @@
                             <!-- Error on small RSA public exponents. -->
                             <bean parent="mda.X509RSAExponentValidator"/>
                             <!-- Error on inconsistent subjectAltNames. -->
-                            <bean parent="X509ConsistentNameValidator"/>
+                            <bean parent="ukf.X509ConsistentNameValidator"/>
                             
                             <!--
                                 Debian weak key blacklists.
diff --git a/mdx/uk/verbs.xml b/mdx/uk/verbs.xml
index 7f582df6..18d5b51c 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/verbs.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/verbs.xml
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
                             <!-- Error on small RSA public exponents. -->
                             <bean parent="mda.X509RSAExponentValidator"/>
                             <!-- Error on inconsistent subjectAltNames. -->
-                            <bean parent="X509ConsistentNameValidator"/>
+                            <bean parent="ukf.X509ConsistentNameValidator"/>
 
                             <!--
                                 Debian weak key blacklists.
diff --git a/mdx/ukf-beans.xml b/mdx/ukf-beans.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c27b3d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdx/ukf-beans.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+    xmlns:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
+    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
+
+    <!--
+        Bean definitions for simplified access to components in the
+        ukf-mda artifact.
+
+        All defined bean names are prefixed with "ukf.".
+    -->
+
+    <!--
+        Parent for anything based on the Shibboleth component system.
+        These all require initialization before use.
+    -->
+    <bean id="ukf.component_parent" abstract="true"
+        init-method="initialize" destroy-method="destroy"/>
+
+    <!--
+        Parent for all stages.
+    -->
+    <bean id="ukf.stage_parent" abstract="true" parent="ukf.component_parent"/>
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda
+    -->
+
+    <bean id="ukf.EntityDescriptorUKIdPopulationStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.EntityDescriptorUKIdPopulationStage"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.IdPDisplayNameDuplicateDetectingStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.IdPDisplayNameDuplicateDetectingStage"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.RegexFileFilter" abstract="true"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.RegexFileFilter"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.UKEntityOrderingStrategy" abstract="true"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.UKEntityOrderingStrategy"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.UKEntitySelectionStrategy" abstract="true"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.UKEntitySelectionStrategy"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.UKItemIdentificationStrategy" abstract="true"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.UKItemIdentificationStrategy"/>
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom
+    -->
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml
+    -->
+
+    <bean id="ukf.EntityOwnerCheckingStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.EntityOwnerCheckingStage"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.SAMLStringElementCheckingStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.SAMLStringElementCheckingStage"/>
+
+    <bean id="ukf.ScopeInjectionStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.ScopeInjectionStage"/>
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.mdattr
+    -->
+
+    <bean id="ukf.EntityAttributeAddingStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.dom.saml.mdattr.EntityAttributeAddingStage"/>
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda.statistics
+    -->
+
+    <bean id="ukf.StatisticsVelocityStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.statistics.StatisticsVelocityStage"/>
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda.validate
+    -->
+
+    <bean id="ukf.X509ConsistentNameValidator" abstract="true" parent="ukf.component_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.validate.X509ConsistentNameValidator"/>
+
+    <!--
+        uk.org.ukfederation.mda.validate.mdui
+    -->
+
+    <bean id="ukf.IPHintValidationStage" abstract="true" parent="ukf.stage_parent"
+        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.validate.mdui.IPHintValidationStage"/>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/mdx/validation-beans.xml b/mdx/validation-beans.xml
index 3076a5c4..247156e6 100644
--- a/mdx/validation-beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/validation-beans.xml
@@ -209,8 +209,7 @@
         
         Checks for the mdui:IPHint element.
     -->
-    <bean id="check_mdui_iphint" parent="stage_parent"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.validate.mdui.IPHintValidationStage"
+    <bean id="check_mdui_iphint" parent="ukf.IPHintValidationStage"
         p:checkingNetworks="true"/>
     
     <!--
@@ -408,9 +407,8 @@
         It is assumed that the entities are independently represented as EntityDescriptor
         items in the item collection.
     -->
-    <bean id="check_dup_display" parent="stage_parent"
-        p:identificationStrategy-ref="identificationStrategy"
-        class="uk.org.ukfederation.mda.IdPDisplayNameDuplicateDetectingStage"/>
+    <bean id="check_dup_display" parent="ukf.IdPDisplayNameDuplicateDetectingStage"
+        p:identificationStrategy-ref="identificationStrategy"/>
 
 
     <!--
@@ -581,7 +579,7 @@
     <!--
         check_saml_strings
     -->
-    <bean id="check_saml_strings" parent="SAMLStringElementCheckingStage">
+    <bean id="check_saml_strings" parent="ukf.SAMLStringElementCheckingStage">
         <property name="elementNames">
             <set>
                 <ref bean="md-Company"/>