This release provides information on:

• confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases for students and staff known to providers
• estimates for number of self-isolating students
• estimated cases per 100,000 for students and staff (autumn term only)
• numbers of providers by their higher education tiers of restriction (autumn term only)

The release was updated on 26 April with data up to 7 April.

The data includes:

• case rate per 100,000 population
• case rate per 100,000 population aged 60 years and over
• percentage change in case rate per 100,000 from previous week
• number of people tested and weekly positivity
• NHS pressures by Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP)

More detailed epidemiological charts and graphs are presented for areas in very high and high local COVID alert level areas.

See the https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/" class="govuk-link">detailed data on hospital activity.

See the https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2.43448994.685856970.1607933075-1070872729.1597161719" class="govuk-link">detailed data on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic.

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

This release provides estimates of coronavirus (COVID-19) related support schemes, grants and loans made to farms in England. Data are based on farms participating in the Farm Business Survey and are representative only of the survey population. The data covers the period March 2020 to February 2021, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The wording of this release was updated on the 17th January 2022 to clarify terminology relating to the Farm Business Survey population. There were no changes to any of the previously published figures.

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Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

These are the key findings from the second of three rounds of the DCMS Coronavirus Business Survey. These surveys are being conducted to help DCMS understand how our sectors are responding to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The data collected is not longitudinal as responses are voluntary, meaning that businesses have no obligation to complete multiple rounds of the survey and businesses that did not submit a response to one round are not excluded from response collection in following rounds.

The indicators and analysis presented in this bulletin are based on responses from the voluntary business survey, which captures organisations responses on how their turnover, costs, workforce and resilience have been affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The results presented in this release are based on 3,870 completed responses collected between 17 August and 8 September 2020.

1. Experimental Statistics

This is the first time we have published these results as Official Statistics. An earlier round of the business survey can be found on gov.uk.

We have designated these as Experimental Statistics, which are newly developed or innovative statistics. These are published so that users and stakeholders can be involved in the assessment of their suitability and quality at an early stage.

We expect to publish a third round of the survey before the end of the financial year. To inform that release, we would welcome any user feedback on the presentation of these results to evidence@dcms.gov.uk by the end of November 2020.

2. Data sources

The survey was run simultaneously through DCMS stakeholder engagement channels and via a YouGov panel.

The two sets of results have been merged to create one final dataset.

Invitations to submit a response to the survey were circulated to businesses in relevant sectors through DCMS stakeholder engagement channels, prompting 2,579 responses.

YouGov’s business omnibus panel elicited a further 1,288 responses. YouGov’s respondents are part of their panel of over one million adults in the UK. A series of pre-screened information on these panellists allows YouGov to target senior decision-makers of organisations in DCMS sectors.

3. Quality

One purpose of the survey is to highlight the characteristics of organisations in DCMS sectors whose viability is under threat in order to shape further government support. The timeliness of these results is essential, and there are some limitations, arising from the need for this timely information:

• Estimates from the DCMS Coronavirus (COVID-19) Impact Business Survey are currently unweighted (i.e., each business was assigned the same weight regardless of turnover, size or industry) and should be treated with caution when used to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 across the UK economy.
• Survey responses through DCMS stakeholder comms are likely to contain an element of self-selection bias as those businesses that are more severely negatively affected have a greater incentive to report their experience.
• Due to time constraints, we are yet to undertake any statistical significance testing or provided confidence intervals

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

The responsible statistician for this release is Alex Bjorkegren. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

Pre-release access

The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.