There were approximately 30 - 40 L98A1 bolt action only configuration rifle sent out for sale in Canada, of these about 10 -20 were re-imported into the UK!
There are also 3 'LSW upper' bolt-action rifles in existence, as trial weapons.
Royal Ordnance missed out in providing the L98A1 to the UK civilian shooter; as a result we all have AR15's
Some semi-auto only rifles were produced as demo guns, primarily for police sales, where they are......? It is not difficult to convert the L98 guns to semi auto if you can get hold of one and providing you have the spares
The number of required carbine models for tank crews equals the number of 'surplus' LSW's with the sneaky introduction of the minimi; those receivers are certainly spoken for!
The LSW is history, no SPR role in the current climate, just a spare parts base for the carbines.
The UK MOD has always cut up weapons rather than sell them on in the UK. We will quite happily sell / give them away to foreign countries and later have them used against us, but not sell them to the UK Civ Pop!
When Hong Kong went the new SA80's were cut in half and skipped along with the spares, tools and SUSAT's