COVID-19 Restrictions Timeseries

National and local restrictions and policies affecting London, by date. Supplied as an experimental dataset to provide context for analysis of other social or economic datasets, for instance, footfall and spend data timeseries. Information was mainly gathered from government announcements published by the Prime Minister's Office. The restrictions and policies included are:

School closures - complete closures only Pub closures - excluding pubs that serve food Shop closures - non-essential Eating Places closures - including pubs that serve food Stay at home orders Household mixing indoors banned Working from home encouraged Rule of 6 indoors 10pm curfew on hospitality Eat Out to Help Out scheme

Data and Resources

restrictions_summary.csv
Summary of changes to restrictions and policies
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restrictions_weekly.csv
Weekly dataset of restrictions and policies. A policy is considered to be in...
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restrictions_daily.csv
Daily dataset of restrictions and policies
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Source	https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/covid-19-restrictions-timeseries-2oxxd
Last Updated	December 17, 2025, 12:42 (UTC)
Created	October 22, 2025, 12:03 (UTC)
GUID	2oxxd
Language
dcat_issued	2021-02-18T08:20:27.000Z
dcat_modified	2024-01-14T18:52:29.000Z
harvest_object_id	e172475e-12a8-4192-9c9d-07cadda5eb61
harvest_source_id	a3e8ccdb-5c53-4b4b-9db7-ae23b3e3e29f
harvest_source_title	london