Honours
(asked on 21st June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 7 June (HL708), what are the original (1) regions, and (2) nations, given as the living address for the 63 current holders the Companion of Honour at the time their honour was awarded; and what percentage of current holders came from each region or nation.
There are currently 63 living recipients of the Companion of Honour. Information is only held on 41 living recipients. Honours data is routinely destroyed by the Cabinet Office in accordance with our data retention policy for honours and not all the nominations were processed by the Cabinet Office, therefore we do not hold all of the information requested.
Data is collected using the county that the recipient gives as their correspondence address; this is usually their current home address and does not necessarily reflect their area of origin.
Regional data for living Companion of Honour recipients:
Region | Number of living Companion of Honour recipients per region | Percentage of living Companion of Honour recipients per region |
East | 3 | 4.8% |
East Midlands | 1 | 1.6% |
London | 18 | 28.6% |
North East | 0 | 0.0% |
Northern Ireland | 1 | 1.6% |
North West | 0 | 0.0% |
Scotland | 3 | 4.8% |
South East | 10 | 15.9% |
South West | 1 | 1.6% |
Wales | 0 | 0.0% |
West Midlands | 2 | 3.2% |
Yorkshire & Humberside | 1 | 1.6% |
Abroad | 1 | 1.6% |
No information held | 22 | 34.9% |
Data for living Companion of Honour recipients by nation:
Nation | Number of Companion of living Honour recipients per nation | Percentage of living Companion of Honour recipients per nation |
England | 36 | 57.1% |
Northern Ireland | 1 | 1.6% |
Scotland | 3 | 4.8% |
Wales | 0 | 0.0% |
Abroad | 1 | 1.6% |
No information held | 22 | 34.9% |