Economy Changes in the value and division of unpaid volunteering in the UK: 2000 to 2015
The proportion of people volunteering over the last 12 months has increased in recent years, but at the same time, the average time spent volunteering per day has fallen. Between 2000 and 2015, participation rates increased from 39% to 41% for men and from 39% to 42% for women but the average time spent volunteering decreased from 12.3 to 11.3 minutes for men and 16.3 to 15.7 minutes for women. UK gross domestic expenditure on research and development: 2015
Research and development (R&D) continued to grow, expanding by £1.2 billion to £31.6 billion in 2015, an increase of 4%.
Most of this year's growth came from the business sector, which increased by £1.1 billion to £20.9 billion, an increase of 5%. Investment by insurance companies, pension funds and trusts in the UK (MQ5): Oct to Dec 2016
Net disinvestment of £18 billion was reported by insurance companies, pension funds and trusts in the fourth quarter (Oct to Dec) of 2016; this was the second consecutive quarter of net disinvestment and only the sixth since the start of this series in 1987.
In 2016, the provisional estimate of net disinvestment by insurance companies, pension funds and trusts (£40 billion) was the first since the start of this series in 1987. People, population and community Electoral statistics for UK: 2016
The total number of UK parliamentary electors increased by just over 1 million (2.3%) between December 2015 and December 2016, this partly reflects high levels of public engagement with the EU referendum.
The total number of UK local government electors also increased by just over 1.1 million (2.5%) between December 2015 and December 2016. Commenting on today's Electoral Statistics publication, Neil Park, Head of Population Estimates Unit at ONS said:  There has been a general decline in the time that the UK's unsung heroes and heroines spend volunteering since 2005, according to ONS analysis. Find out more and explore our visual article on volunteering trends in the UK.  | 
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