{"id":29315,"date":"2021-11-22T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T10:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=29315"},"modified":"2021-11-22T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T10:41:24","slug":"ons-finds-2021-rd-spending-on-uk-telecoms-has-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/ons-finds-2021-rd-spending-on-uk-telecoms-has-grown.html","title":{"rendered":"ONS Finds 2021 R&#038;D Spending on UK Telecoms Has Grown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes\/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure\/bulletins\/businessenterpriseresearchanddevelopment\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office for National Statistics<\/a> (ONS) has revealed that the telecoms industry has gone from last year&#8217;s report, when spending on research and development grew by just 0.95% to total \u00a3956m, to this year when such spending has risen by 4.5% (\u00a344m) to reach a 9-year high of \u00a31.028bn.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The latest annual report actually reflects data from 2020, which will have been impacted by the <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> pandemic, and we should add that R&amp;D spending on telecoms does have a long history of yo-yo like movements. Nevertheless, in growth terms we&#8217;re still a long way from 2018, when it grew 25.4% in the year to total \u00a3947m.<\/p>\n<p>However, the industry is unusual in that it hasn\u2019t grown its total R&amp;D spending at all over the past decade. In fact, the amount the industry spends on R&amp;D has shrunk \u00a3101m or 8.9% since 2010 when it registered \u00a31.13bn. It now makes up 3.8% of total UK R&amp;D spending. By comparison, across all sectors, UK R&amp;D spending grew 3.5% last year to a record \u00a326.9bn (a rise of 67.9% since 2010).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Mark Tighe, CEO of R&#038;D Tax Specialist Catax, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The telecoms sector is an unusual outlier in R&#038;D terms. It has not grown its innovation spending at all in the past decade, which is alarming even if it has outperformed in growth terms over the past year. <\/p>\n<p>Things have been improving since 2018, however, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> infrastructure, gigabit and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> broadband demanding so much attention, the stronger growth of the past few years should continue to push R&#038;D spending to new highs.<\/p>\n<p>A significant portion of this spending will be earning those companies responsible millions of pounds in R&#038;D tax credits which can be reinvested straight back into R&#038;D.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Government has set a target to bring UK R&amp;D spending up to 2.4% of GDP by 2027 and the latest figures show that it is currently running at 1.7% of GDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the telecoms industry has gone from last year&#8217;s report, when spending on research and development grew by just 0.95% to total \u00a3956m, to this year when such spending has risen by 4.5% (\u00a344m) to reach a 9-year high of \u00a31.028bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,38,34],"class_list":["post-29315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-politics","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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