"Figure 2: The accommodation and food service activities industry had the lowest percentage of businesses currently trading, at 61% ","" "Current trading status, all businesses, broken down by industry, weighted by count, UK, 4 to 16 May 2021 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 30 of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’) Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS). 2. For presentational purposes, currently trading categories and paused trading categories have been combined. 3. Industries may not sum to 100% because of rounding and percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes. 4. Mining and quarrying has been removed for disclosure purposes, but its total is included in “All industries”. " "Unit","%" "","" "Industry","Permanently ceased trading","Temporarily closed or paused trading","Currently trading" "Accommodation and food service activities","1.5","37.9","60.7" "Transportation and storage","9.1","24.1","66.8" "Information and communication","5.4","16.7","77.9" "Arts entertainment and recreation","*","20.1","79.7" "Real estate activities","9.1","9.2","81.7" "Administrative and support service activities","4.4","13.8","81.9" "Construction","1.9","14.3","83.8" "Professional scientific and technical activities","6.2","8.7","85.1" "Manufacturing","6.3","6.7","87.1" "Education","5.3","5.5","89.3" "Wholesale and retail trade; repair of
motor vehicles and motorcycles","1.8","4.2","94.0" "Other service activities","0","3.8","96.2" "Water supply; sewerage waste
management and remediation activities","0","1.2","98.8" "Human health and social work activities","0","0.0","99.9" "All industries","3.9","12.7","83.4"