FOI release

Honours nominations probity and propriety checks

Information released under the Freedom of Information Act.

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The integrity of the honours system is protected by the carrying out of probity checks with a number of government departments before names are submitted to the Prime Minister and The King for approval.

Under the Freedom of Information rules HM Revenue and Customs has released a breakdown of probity checks completed.

Updates to this page

Published 8 October 2018
Last updated 20 October 2023 + show all updates
  1. Updated to include the advisory ratings for 2022.

  2. Figures in the table showing the number of advisory ratings HMRC provided to The Honours and Appointments Secretariat updated to include 2021 data.

  3. Updated figures in the table showing the number of advisory ratings HMRC provided to The Honours and Appointments Secretariat.

  4. Updated with full 2018 data.

  5. First published.

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