Dataset(s): Business enterprise research and development, UK (designated as national statistics)

UK estimates of annual research and development (R&D) spending by UK businesses.

Contact:
Daniel Robinson

Release date:
27 February 2024

Next release:
To be announced

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Provides files to download data as it existed for this dataset on previous dates.

Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:

  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

Latest version

xlsx (40.9 kB)

Previous versions

Superseded files Reason for update Date superseded
xls (71.7 kB) Scheduled update/revision 27 February 2024 09:30
xlsx (215.0 kB) Scheduled update/revision 22 November 2022 09:30
xls (437.8 kB)
Correction See correction
An error was discovered in the calculation of Table 17 ‘Expenditure and Employment on R&D performed in UK businesses: Top 100 Enterprise Groups’ for 2020. Separately an error was also discovered in Table 7 for the regional employment total for Scotland in 2020. The values have now been corrected and the release and all related data have been updated. The original releases are also available.
15 December 2021 12:26
xlsx (214.7 kB)
Correction See correction
An error was discovered in the calculation of Table 19 ‘Expenditure and Employment on R&D performed in UK businesses: Top 100 Enterprise Groups’ for 2019. The values have now been corrected and the release and all related data have been updated. The original releases are also available.
15 December 2021 11:47
xlsx (84.2 kB) Scheduled update/revision 25 November 2021 15:49
xls (444.4 kB) Scheduled update/revision 19 November 2021 09:30
xls (446.0 kB)
Correction See correction
An error in Table 7 of the main dataset has been corrected. The previous version showed Scotland with a 6.4% share of total R&D performed in the UK. It has been amended to 5.4%. This was introduced due to a processing error.
19 February 2021 07:32
xls (492.5 kB) Scheduled update/revision 20 November 2020 09:30
xls (482.3 kB)
Correction See correction
An error was discovered in the regional totals for the South East and Scotland. The corrected values have now been calculated and the release and all data have been updated. The original release is also available.
25 February 2020 07:58
xls (606.2 kB) Scheduled update/revision 21 November 2019 09:30
xls (569.9 kB)
Correction See correction
An error was discovered in the split between expenditure on Civil and Defence R &D. The corrected values have now been calculated and the release and all related data have been updated. The original release is also available.
15 March 2019 12:13
xls (466.4 kB) Scheduled update/revision 21 November 2018 09:30
xls (487.4 kB) Scheduled update/revision 21 November 2017 09:30
xls (2.2 MB) Scheduled update/revision 17 November 2016 09:30
xls (1.6 MB) Scheduled update/revision 20 November 2015 00:00