Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between John Penrose and Kerry McCarthy

Thursday 22nd June 2023 Commons Chamber

[John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare) (Con)]

2. What criteria his Department uses to assess people who are nominated for honours.

[Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East) (Lab)]

7. What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department’s processes for scrutinising nominations for honours.

[The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Alex Burghart)]

Nominations are, as my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose) will know, taken on merit. The criteria that we use are regularly reported to Government, with our most recent report on the operation of the honours system published last month. We are confident that the process for honours selection, including adequate probity and propriety checks, is proportionate and robust and that all due process is followed.