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New Year's Honours list 2016

The full New Year Honours lists for 2016 recognise the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.

From:
Cabinet Office, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Home Office
Published
30 December 2015

Documents

New Year's Honours 2016

PDF, 567 KB, 124 pages

New Year's Honours 2016: CSV

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 253 KB

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New Year's Honours 2016: notes on the higher awards

PDF, 236 KB, 15 pages

New Year's Honours 2016: the Foreign Secretary's overseas list

PDF, 71.5 KB, 7 pages

New Year's Honours 2016: notes on the Foreign Secretary's overseas list

PDF, 67.1 KB, 3 pages

New Year's Honours 2016: Foreign and Commonwealth Office press release

PDF, 126 KB, 3 pages

New Year's Honours 2016: ambulance service list

PDF, 160 KB, 1 page

New Year's Honours 2016: fire service list

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New Year's Honours 2016: police service list

PDF, 163 KB, 2 pages

Details

Looking for the latest Honours recipients? See the 2017 New Year Honours list

In total 1,196 people have received an award:

  • 1,044 candidates have been selected at BEM, MBE and OBE level. 329 at BEM, 472 at MBE and 243 at OBE
  • 76% of the recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities either in a voluntary or paid capacity
  • There are 578 successful women candidates in the list, representing 48% of the total
  • 5.7% of the successful candidates come from ethnic minority backgrounds
  • 7.5% of the successful candidates consider themselves to have a disability under the Equality Act 2010

Read the New Year’s Honours list 2016: news release.

Honours lists are published at New Year and on The Queen’s official birthday in June. Find out more about the honours and how to nominate someone for an award.

Published 30 December 2015

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