"Figure 1: The percentage of businesses currently trading has remained consistent in January 2021, at 71%","" "Current trading status, all businesses, broken down by wave, weighted by count, UK, 15 June 2020 to 24 January 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 7 to Wave 22 of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’) Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey (BICS). 2. For presentational purposes, currently trading categories and paused or temporarily closed categories have been combined. 3. Waves will not sum to 100% because of rounding, percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes, and the option permanently ceased trading being removed." "Unit","%" "","" "Date","Currently trading","Temporarily closed or paused trading" "Jun-20","65.9","33.4" "Jul-20","71.6","26.4" "Jul-20","78.5","19.3" "Aug-20","82.4","15.9" "Aug-20","81.5","16.3" "Aug-20","82.7","15.0" "Sep-20","83.9","13.2" "Sep-20","86.3","12.4" "Oct-20","86.1","11.4" "Oct-20","84.6","11.4" "Nov-20","81.6","16.5" "Nov-20","77.1","21.1" "Dec-20","80.4","16.9" "Dec-20","84.4","13.3" "Jan-21","70.6","27.1" "Jan-21","71.0","26.0"