UK: New Year’s Honours List 2007

The Cabinet Office has published the recommendations to The Queen for the Honours list.

These recommendations happen twice a year normally – at New Year and for the Queen’s official birthday in June.

They are awarded to people for all kinds of service. In this list:
10% are going to people in education
8% are going to people in health
17% are going to people in business, science and technology
7% are going to people working in the cultural economy
59% are going to people nominated for work in the voluntary sector
The largest number of awards goes to those providing services to their local communities – mainly volunteers

Complete 2007 New Year’s Honours List
54 pages; PDF.

See Also: UK Honours System
History, nominations, emblems, lists back to 1993.

Source: The Cabinet Office

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