"Figure 2: The accommodation and food service activities industry had the lowest percentage of businesses currently trading, though this had increased by 9 percentage points since Wave 28","" "Current trading status, all businesses, broken down by industry, weighted by count, UK, 19 April to 2 May 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 29 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","*","39","60.8" "Transportation and storage","4.8","22.1","73.2" "Arts entertainment and recreation","1.6","20.2","78.2" "Education","3.9","16.7","79.4" "Administrative and support service activities","5.2","14.7","80" "Information and communication","3.4","15.9","80.8" "Construction","1.3","17.2","81.5" "Professional scientific and technical activities","5.1","10.5","84.5" "Manufacturing","5.6","7.1","87.4" "Real estate activities","10.8","0","89.2" "Other service activities","0","9.5","90.5" "Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles","2.3","7","90.7" "Human health and social work activities","0","3.8","96.1" "Water supply; sewerage waste management and remediation activities","0","*","99.9" "All industries","3.3","14.1","82.6"