Honours
(asked on 17th June 2019) - 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 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 Queen’s Birthday List 2019 can be found below. 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 | K Level | C Level | OBE | MBE | BEM | Total | % of overall List | % of the UK’s population |
Wales | 3 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 12 | 51 | 4.75% | 4.8% |
Scotland | 2 | 14 | 29 | 41 | 30 | 116 | 10.81% | 8.2% |
Northern Ireland | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 40 | 64 | 5.96% | 2.9% |
East | 3 | 9 | 16 | 34 | 22 | 84 | 7.83% | 9.3% |
East Midlands | 0 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 19 | 44 | 4.10% | 7.2% |
London | 15 | 41 | 56 | 58 | 29 | 199 | 18.55% | 12.9% |
North East | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 29 | 2.70% | 4.1% |
North West | 1 | 4 | 11 | 33 | 32 | 81 | 7.55% | 11.2% |
South East | 3 | 21 | 35 | 48 | 44 | 151 | 14.07% | 13.7& |
South West | 1 | 8 | 26 | 42 | 27 | 104 | 9.69% | 8.4% |
West Midlands | 0 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 28 | 66 | 6.15% | 8.9% |
Yorkshire and Humberside | 1 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 19 | 61 | 5.68% | 8.4% |