Honours
(asked on 13th October 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 Queen's Birthday Honours List, published on 9 October, 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 at all levels on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020 can be found below. Percentages are rounded to 1 decimal point. Data for CBE and higher levels has been aggregated and included in the same table below. Data reflects the correspondence address provided by recipients.
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.
Honours are bestowed on merit. A key aim of the honours system is to make it more equitable and better representative of the whole of the UK.
In the last 25 years (since October 1995) there have been 83 recipients of the Companion of Honour. We do not collect the information requested, nor do we collect information on recipients of Order of Merit, as this is within the personal gift of The Sovereign.
Region | BEM | BEM% | MBE | MBE % | OBE | OBE % | CBE and Higher | CBE and Higher % | Total | Population % |
East | 39 | 7.3% | 48 | 8.6% | 24 | 9.4% | 5 | 3.6% | 116 | 9.3% |
East Midlands | 15 | 2.8% | 19 | 3.4% | 5 | 1.9% | 1 | 0.7% | 40 | 7.2% |
London | 45 | 8.4% | 103 | 18.3% | 61 | 23.9% | 56 | 40.9% | 264 | 12.9% |
North East | 23 | 4.3% | 13 | 2.3% | 2 | 0.8% | 1 | 0.7% | 39 | 4.1% |
North West | 59 | 11.0% | 46 | 8.2% | 22 | 8.6% | 9 | 6.6% | 136 | 11.2% |
South East | 61 | 11.4% | 76 | 13.5% | 47 | 18.4% | 25 | 18.2% | 211 | 13.7% |
South West | 44 | 8.2% | 47 | 8.4% | 13 | 5.1% | 5 | 3.6% | 109 | 8.4% |
West Midlands | 40 | 7.4% | 38 | 6.8% | 17 | 6.7% | 7 | 5.1% | 102 | 13.7% |
Yorkshire and Humberside | 40 | 7.4% | 29 | 5.2% | 20 | 7.8% | 11 | 8.0% | 100 | 8.4% |
Northern Ireland | 63 | 11.7% | 39 | 6.9% | 12 | 4.7% | 2 | 1.5% | 115 | 2.9% |
Scotland | 64 | 11.9% | 58 | 10.3% | 21 | 8.2% | 7 | 5.1% | 151 | 8.4% |
Wales | 43 | 8.0% | 43 | 7.7% | 9 | 3.5% | 7 | 5.1% | 103 | 4.8% |
Living Abroad | 1 | 0.2% | 2 | 0.4% | 2 | 0.8% | 1 | 0.7% | 11 | - |
Total | 537 |
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