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  • Nominate someone for an honour or award

    Nominate someone for an honour or bravery award (called a gallantry award), read the New Year honours list - BEMs, MBEs, OBEs, knighthoods, outstanding achievements and contributions to public life.

  • Sir John Soane's Museum

    Soane’s is the idiosyncratic house-museum of the great Neo-Classical architect Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837). The house still displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, models and paintings in the same state in which they were left at the time...

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  • Sir Winston Churchill

    Sir Winston Churchill served as Prime Minister between 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955. Read more about the life and achievements of Sir Winston Churchill in our past Prime Ministers section.

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  • King's Counsel appointments ceremony 2024: Lord Chancellor speech

    Lord Chancellor’s speech at the 2024 King’s Counsel appointment ceremony, recognising those who have been formally appointed to the rank of KC and Honorary KC.

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  • Honours committees

    This page provides information on how honours committees are made up and who the current members are.

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  • Police pay: Winsor review

    Tom Winsor conducted an independent review of police officer and staff remuneration and conditions, published March 2011.

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  • Sir Richard Lambert

    Sir Richard Lambert joined the Financial Times after reading history at Balliol College, Oxford. He edited the Lex column and served as financial editor and New York bureau chief before being appointed deputy editor in 1983. He edited the paper...

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  • Sir Stephen Hillier re-appointed as Chair of UK Civil Aviation Authority

    Sir Stephen will ensure that the Civil Aviation Authority continues to focus on protecting passengers and enabling the aerospace sector to continue to develop.

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  • Sir Edward Garnier KC

    Sir Edward Garnier was Solicitor General from May 2010 to September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for Harborough on 9 April 1992. Sir Edward was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, Jesus College, Oxford and the College of Law, London....

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  • Sir Ernest Ryder

    Sir Ernest Ryder became Senior President of Tribunals in September 2015. Sir Ernest was called to the Bar in 1981 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1997. He became a Recorder in 2000. He was appointed a High Court judge, and...

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  • Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin extended in post

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirm that Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin will be extended in post until autumn 2025.

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  • Sir Nigel Thrift

    Sir Nigel was appointed Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management on 2 July 2018. Until 2017, Sir Nigel was the Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars. He is one of the world’s leading human geographers and previously served as...

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  • Sir Philip Rutnam

    Sir Philip Rutnam resigned from his post as Permanent Secretary of the Home Office on 29 February 2020 and subsequently began legal proceedings against the Home Office. Joining the civil service in 1987, Sir Philip is a distinguished public servant....

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  • First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key DSEI 2023 Keynote

    First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key, delivered his keynote speech at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2023.

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  • Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor

    Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor is currently the Chairman of the Independent Medical Expert Group (IMEG) of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) . He is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at National Heart and Lung Institute ( NHLI...

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  • Sir Bernard Silverman

    Sir Bernard is a British statistician who is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Following senior appointments at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Oxford, he was the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office from 2010...

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  • Speech by Sir Richard Moore, head of SIS, 19 July 2023

    Sir Richard Moore, head of the Secret Intelligence Service, spoke about the current focus of the Service and the value of the “human factor” in the age of AI.

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  • Sir Richard Mottram

    Sir Richard Mottram is a former senior civil servant, having served in the Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office between 1968 and 2007. He is chairman of Amey, a visiting professor in the Department for Government of the London School...

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  • General Sir Patrick Sanders DSEI 2023 Keynote Speech

    General Sir Patrick Sanders, Chief of the General Staff, delivered his keynote speech at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2023.

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  • Professor Sir Michael Rawlins GBE, Kt

    Sir Michael is chairman of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (since December 2014). He is a clinical phamacologist and specialist in internal medicine. He was professor of clinical pharmacology in Newcastle, and physician at the Newcastle Hospitals, from...

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