The honours committee also does not make nominations for peerages, which are created directly by the monarch.Ĭommittees Main committee The Cabinet's Honours Committee nominates civilians only military honours, such as the Victoria Cross and the George Cross, are sent to the Queen by the Honours and Decorations Committee of the Ministry of Defence. According to the Cabinet Office's 2011 report, "The Main Honours Committee must satisfy itself that a party political donation has not influenced the decision to award an honour in any way the committee must be confident that the candidate would have been a meritorious recipient of an honour if he or she had not made a political donation." įollowing the Cash for Honours scandal, the Main Honours Committee is required to determine that an individual's nomination for an honour has not been influenced by campaign and political contributions. The individual committees assess the nominations and pass the nominations to the Main Honours Committee, whose members select the final list of nominations that are passed to the Queen by the Prime Minister. Įach subcommittee oversees nominations for its specialised area: Arts and Media Community, Voluntary and Local Services Economy Education Health Parliamentary and Political Service Science and Technology Sport and State. The majority of the honours committees are non-civil servants. (In 2012, an additional committee was added.) The committees are composed of senior civil servants and independent experts in specific fields. The next year, following recommendations made in Phillips' report, a new system of eight committees was organised, with each committee focussing on a special area. įollowing his retirement as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, Sir Hayden Phillips prepared a report in July 2004 to the Cabinet Secretary suggesting a reform of the current honours nomination system.
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Non-citizens are eligible for honorary awards. All citizens of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations can be nominated. Since 1993, members of the public have been eligible to nominate individuals government agencies may also formally put forward candidates. In 2001, the committee became officially known as the Ceremonial Honours and Appointments Secretariat. In the 20th century, the "Ceremonial Branch" of the government was created in 1937 with the sole purpose of overseeing the honours system.
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Other honours beyond knighthood were later established, including the Order of the Bath in 1725. Later it became customary for only the reigning monarch to bestow the honour. Knighthoods were originally conferred as a military honour, often on the battlefield.
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The honours system is an ancient one, particularly in Britain Æthelstan, King of the English in the 10th century, was knighted by his grandfather, Alfred the Great.