"Figure 2: 16% of businesses who had temporarily closed or paused trading reported they expect to restart trading in the next two weeks ","" "Businesses intending to restart trading, businesses temporarily closed or paused trading, broken down by industry, UK, 4 May to 17 May 2020 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Final results, Wave 5 of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’) Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID19) Survey (BICS). 2. The percentages in this chart relate to the businesses that had temporarily closed or paused trading during this period. 3. Other services and mining and quarrying have been removed for disclosure purposes, but their totals are included in ""All industries"". 4. Businesses were asked for their experiences for the reference period 4 May to 17 May 2020, but for questions regarding expectations in the next two weeks businesses may respond from the point of completion of the questionnaire (18 May to 31 May 2020). " "Unit","%" "","" "Industry","Not sure","More than 4 weeks","2 to 4 weeks ","Next 2 weeks " "Human health and social work activities","50.0","25.0","25.0","0.0" "Real estate activities","50.0","0.0","50.0","0.0" "Water supply sewerage waste management
and remediation activities","66.7","33.3","0.0","0.0" "Arts entertainment and recreation","45.5","47.5","3.0","4.0" "Administrative and support service activities","61.4","32.9","0.0","5.7" "Education","57.1","35.7","0.0","7.1" "Information and communication","54.2","37.5","0.0","8.3" "Accommodation and food service activities","39.1","37.4","11.2","12.4" "Transportation and storage","50.0","25.0","6.3","18.8" "Professional scientific and technical activities","50.0","25.0","0.0","25.0" "Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles","49.4","8.8","15.3","26.5" "Construction","55.4","1.4","8.1","35.1" "Manufacturing","35.8","12.3","16.0","35.8" "All industries","45.0","30.4","9.0","15.6"