Honours
(asked on 7th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of each category of honours were awarded in the New Year Honours List to people in (1) Wales, (2) Scotland, (3) Northern Ireland, and (4) each of the regions of England, as a (a) number, and (b) percentage, of that country or region's population.
Statistical information held in relation to the regional breakdown of recipients on the New Year Honours List 2020 can be found below. Data is collected using county and aggregated into regional figures. Information on the number of nominations by mayoral region is not captured, as we are not able to break down the data in that way.
REGION | NUMBER OF NY20 RECIPIENTS | PERCENTAGE OF NY20 LIST | PERCENTAGE OF UK POPULATION |
EAST | 84 | 7.7% | 9.3% |
EAST MIDLANDS | 36 | 3.3% | 7.2% |
LONDON | 275 | 25.0% | 12.9% |
NORTH EAST | 24 | 2.2% | 4.1% |
NORTHERN IRELAND | 94 | 8.6% | 2.9% |
NORTH WEST | 103 | 9.4% | 11.2% |
SCOTLAND | 89 | 8.1% | 8.4% |
SOUTH EAST | 141 | 12.9% | 13.7% |
SOUTH WEST | 79 | 7.2% | 8.4% |
WALES | 42 | 3.8% | 4.8% |
WEST MIDLANDS | 59 | 5.4% | 8.9% |
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE | 67 | 6.1% | 8.4% |