"Figure 9: UK Government expenditure on SET, and expenditure on R&D by UK Government R&D performer, 2012","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. The amount of R&D expenditure by UK performer in Figure 9 includes funding from other UK sectors and overseas" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Expenditure on R&D by UK performer","Expenditure on SET" "Research councils","0.8","2.4" "Civil departments","1.2","1.2" "HEFCs","0","2.2" "Defence department","0.2","1.3" "Contributions to EU R&D expenditure","0","0.7"