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- Around 2000 honours are awarded each year and are published in an Honours List on the monarch’s official birthday in June and on New Year’s Day.
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Sep 24, 2024 · When are honours awarded? Most honours are awarded at new year and on the monarch's official birthday , in June. The King's Birthday Honours list in 2024 included:
Oct 31, 2023 · Around 2000 honours are awarded each year and are published in an Honours List on the monarch’s official birthday in June and on New Year’s Day. They are made up of around 400 Members of the British Empire (MBEs),
Honours recipients are announced twice a year, once in the New Year's Honours List, and once on the Monarch's official birthday. Separate military lists are published known as Operational lists and cover military activity overseas.
- How The Honours System Works
- The Integrity of The Honours System
- Merit Checks
- Probity and Propriety Checks
- Handling of Honours Information
- Restoration of Honours and Medals Following A Formal Disregard Determination
- Criteria
- Freedom of Information
The honours system covers the whole of the UK, and all honours are approved by HM King. Anyone can nominate anyone else for an honour. Find out more about how to nominate someone. The Honours and Appointments Secretariat in the Cabinet Office coordinates the operation of the honours system. It provides administrative support to the independent hono...
Honours are given to reward outstanding service and achievement in a given field or area. As part of the nomination process, we try to minimise the risk that prospective candidates have behaved in ways likely to bring the system into disrepute.
Once an honours nomination is submitted to the Honours and Appointments Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, a process of validation is carried out to assess the strength and credibility of the case. Each nomination is handled differently, depending on what the person has been doing. Typically, views will be sought from organisations like: 1. governm...
We protect the integrity of the honours system by carrying out probity checks with a number of government departments, before names are submitted to the Prime Minister and HM King for approval. As part of this vetting process, HM Revenue and Customs may advise the Honours and Appointments Secretariat about any potential risk posed to HM Government ...
All information about an honours nominee, received from any source, is treated in the strictest confidence by the Honours and Appointments Secretariat and others involved in the assessment and selection of honours nominees. All checks and exchanges of information are carried out in compliance with data protection laws. Information is shared only as...
From February 2021, it will be possible for honours and medals to be restored to living individuals whose convictions for repealed offences have been determined as eligible to be disregarded/pardoned under the provisions of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, the Policing and Crime Act 2017, and the Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregar...
An honour or medal will be restored if the application satisfies all of the following criteria: a. the applicant can present a valid disregard determination letter from: the Home Office as provided for under Chapter 4 Part 5 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, or the Department of Justice (Northern Ireland) under Chapter 4 Part 5 of the Protect...
Information about how to make a Freedom of Information Act request can be found on the Cabinet Office page. When the Cabinet Office receives questions about the honours system, it considers whether it holds the information requested. If it does, it applies a public interest test (under section 37(1)(b) of the Act) to decide whether or not to releas...
The Order of the British Empire was established by King George V in 1917 to honour those who had served in a non-combative role and expanded the Order to reward contributions to the Arts, Sciences,...
Once an individual accepts an honour and it has been announced in The London Gazette and published GOV.UK/Honours, they will be invited to an Investiture by the Central Chancery of the...
How Many Honours Are Awarded Each Year? Between 2015 and 2019, just under 10 thousand honours were granted (9,929 to be exact). That is five years or ten Honours Lists (King’s Birthday and New Year) so around 1000 honours per list or 2000 per year.
