The ONS also publishes other figures on contributions to EU institutions which don’t include all our payments or receipts, which complicates matters. Here we have used a wide definition, which includes spending on healthcare, education, defence, and spending on social security benefits. The amount covers the whole of the UK. Home About Contact Blog Donate. Often, very large numbers can lose meaning — to help you make sense of them we have created a calculator tool that will break the numbers down for you. Get Your Facts Straight Join the mailing list. There are also some payments to the EC that are not allocated to a particular country and are therefore also not included in their figures.