There are now nearly 25,000 fewer licensed premises open in the UK than there were before the coronavirus lockdown, a drop of 21.7%, according to CGA and AlixPartners. Their latest Market Recovery Monitor has shown that just over 90,000 premises around Britain had returned to trading by the end of September, a net increase of nearly 4,000 sites in the month, but the openings were significantly less than those seen in August (15,500). The number of sites currently trading compares to the 115,000 licensed premises recorded by CGA in March.