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Honours

Answer

Statistical information held in relation to the regional breakdown of all 1157 recipients for the King’s New Year Honours List 2026 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 14 individuals who noted their location as South Yorkshire in the King’s New Year Honours List 2026 List, 2 of which were above OBE level. There were 0 individuals who noted their location as Sheffield.

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, 3 individuals received an award above MBE level.

42 recipients of honours in the King’s New Year Honours List 2026 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.

There are currently 62 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 New Year Honours List 2026 round is not held. There were no recipients of the Companion of Honour on the King’s New Year Honours List 2026.

Region	BEM	BEM%	MBE	MBE%	OBE	OBE%	CBE & Higher	CBE & higher%	Total	% of the total NY26 list living in each region	% of UK population
East	28	8.8%	36	7.4%	21	9.4%	11	8.7%	96	8.3%	9.5%
East Midlands	12	3.8%	22	4.5%	9	4.0%	7	5.5%	50	4.3%	7.3%
London	28	8.8%	89	18.2%	58	25.9%	42	33.1%	217	18.8%	13.0%
North East	9	2.8%	14	2.9%	6	2.7%	1	0.8%	30	2.6%	4.0%
North West	31	9.8%	44	9.0%	17	7.6%	5	3.9%	97	8.4%	11.0%
Northern Ireland	20	6.3%	25	5.1%	6	2.7%	4	3.1%	55	4.8%	2.8%
Scotland	25	7.9%	56	11.5%	22	9.8%	11	8.7%	114	9.9%	8.0%
South East	47	14.8%	54	11.0%	41	18.3%	22	17.3%	164	14.2%	14.0%
South West	34	10.7%	37	7.6%	15	6.7%	11	8.7%	97	8.4%	8.5%
Wales	18	5.7%	38	7.8%	8	3.6%	3	2.4%	67	5.8%	4.6%
West Midlands	38	12.0%	33	6.7%	9	4.0%	1	0.8%	81	7.0%	8.9%
Yorkshire & Humberside	27	8.5%	39	8.0%	10	4.5%	8	6.3%	84	7.3%	8.2%
Living abroad	0	0.0%	2	0.4%	2	0.9%	1	0.8%	5	0.4%	-
Total	317	100%	489	100%	224	100%	127	100%	1157	100%	-

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL13221

Session

2024-26

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Honours

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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