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New Year's Honours list 2017

The full New Year Honours lists for 2017 recognise the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.

• From: Cabinet Office, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), Department of Health and Social Care, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Home Office
• Published: 30 December 2016

Documents

New Year's Honours 2017

PDF, 608 KB, 124 pages

New Year's Honours 2017: CSV

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 245 KB

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New Year's Honours 2017: notes on the higher awards

PDF, 245 KB, 16 pages

New Year's Honours 2017: the Foreign Secretary's overseas list, Order of St Michael and St George

PDF, 86.9 KB, 2 pages

New Year's Honours 2017: the Foreign Secretary's overseas list, Order of the British Empire and Knight Bachelor

PDF, 204 KB, 6 pages

New Year's Honours 2017: notes on the Foreign Secretary's overseas list higher awards

PDF, 187 KB, 2 pages

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New Year's Honours 2017: Foreign and Commonwealth Office press release

PDF, 217 KB, 3 pages

New Year's Honours 2017: police service list

PDF, 104 KB, 2 pages

New Year's Honours 2017: fire service list

PDF, 87.5 KB, 1 page

New Year's Honours 2017: ambulance service list

PDF, 101 KB, 1 page

Details

In total 1,197 people have received an award:

• 1,047 candidates have been selected at BEM, MBE and OBE level; 322 at BEM, 503 at MBE and 222 at OBE
• 74% of the recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities either in a voluntary or paid capacity
• there are 603 successful women candidates in the list, representing just over 50% of the total
• 9.3% of the successful candidates come from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, the greatest ever number of BAME recipients in an honours list
• 8.5% of the successful candidates consider themselves to have a disability (under the Equality Act 2010)

Read the New Year’s Honours list 2017 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 2016