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Honours: Standards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the Honours System in terms of (a) fairness, (b) equity and (c) and value.

answeredCameron ThomasCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the Honours System in terms of (a) fairness, (b) equity and (c) and value.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Cabinet Office Honours team is working to make the honours system truly representative of UK society, in line with the Prime Minister’s priorities for the honours system. As part of this work, we have recently established a new independent Diversity a...

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