"Figure 1: Research and development expenditure has reached £25.0 billion in 2018","" "Expenditure by UK businesses, 2007 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Current prices","Constant prices" "2007","15.7","19.0" "2008","15.8","18.7" "2009","15.5","18.1" "2010","16.0","18.4" "2011","17.5","19.7" "2012","17.4","19.2" "2013","18.6","20.2" "2014","20.0","21.4" "2015","21.0","22.3" "2016","22.6","23.4" "2017","23.7","24.1" "2018","25.0","25.0"