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Source: hansard.parliament.uk (2025-06-25)

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Lord Blunkett:To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the recipients of Birthday Honours List 2025 have been recognised in previous honours lists. \p Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent: There are currently 65 living recipients of the Companion of Honour. Data is collected using the region that the recipient gave as their correspondence address when the honour was originally awarded, therefore current address data for recipients prior to the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 round is not held. In the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 list, there were 2 Companions of Honour awarded; one to a recipient in the London region, and one in Bradford-on-Avon.

Statistical information held in relation to the regional breakdown of recipients at all levels for the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025 can be found below. Percentages are rounded to 1 decimal point. Data for CBE and higher levels has been aggregated and is also included below. Data reflects the correspondence address provided by recipients.

Data is collected using city/town and county, then aggregated into regional figures at the time that the recipients were sounded for an award, not when they were originally nominated. There were 20 individuals who noted their location as South Yorkshire in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 List, 3 of which were above OBE level. There were 13 individuals who noted their location as Sheffield, 2 of which were above OBE level.

Information on the number of nominations by mayoral authority in South Yorkshire is not captured, as we are unable to break down the data in that way. However, of those who listed their location as South Yorkshire, 6 individuals received an award above MBE level.

44 recipients of honours in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025 have received honours in previous lists.

This data relates only to the main Prime Minister’s List and does not include data from the Defence List or the Overseas and International List, which are not administered by the Cabinet Office.

Transparency data for the list by county, the level of award received and the service for which each recipient has been recognised, as well as information on recipients recognised in previous honours lists, is publicly available on gov.uk.

Honours are awarded on merit basis. A key aim of the honours system is to ensure that it is more representative of the country as a whole and we will continue to encourage more nominations from every corner of the UK, including South Yorkshire, in future honours lists.

Region

BEM

BEM%

MBE

MBE%

OBE

OBE%

CBE & Higher

CBE & higher%

Total

% of the total BD25 list living in each region

% of UK population

East

29

8.6%

29

5.9%

21

8.6%

12

8.6%

91

7.5%

9.5%

East Midlands

19

5.6%

28

5.7%

8

3.3%

2

1.4%

57

4.7%

7.3%

London

37

10.9%

84

17.0%

60

24.6%

55

39.3%

236

19.4%

13.0%

North East

9

2.7%

17

3.4%

11

4.5%

7

5.0%

44

3.6%

4.0%

North West

31

9.2%

47

9.5%

16

6.6%

9

6.4%

103

8.5%

11.0%

Northern Ireland

26

7.7%

31

6.3%

6

2.5%

2

1.4%

65

5.3%

2.8%

Scotland

41

12.1%

44

8.9%

23

9.4%

6

4.3%

114

9.4%

8.0%

South East

53

15.7%

70

14.2%

41

16.8%

21

15.0%

185

15.2%

14.0%

South West

24

7.1%

36

7.3%

21

8.6%

12

8.6%

93

7.7%

8.5%

Wales

25

7.4%

27

5.5%

10

4.1%

2

1.4%

64

5.3%

4.6%

West Midlands

26

7.7%

32

6.5%

13

5.3%

1

0.7%

72

5.9%

8.9%

Yorkshire & Humberside

18

5.3%

47

9.5%

13

5.3%

9

6.4%

87

7.2%

8.2%

Living abroad

0

0.0%

1

0.2%

1

0.4%

2

1.4%

4

0.3%

-

Total

338

100%

493

100%

244

100%

140

100%

1215

100%

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