Paperwork
Dear Main Honours Advisory Committee,
Please provide me all the paperwork that was submitted to request Alistair "Ally" McCoist an award in the King's birthday honours 2024. In particular I want the paperwork and letters of support that were submitted. My request is based on this extract below from the Honours Secretaries’ Handbook.
"Public nominations are processed by the Honours and Appointments Secretariat in the Cabinet Office if they are cross-cutting or very local in scope. If the activity is specific to a particular sector, then the nomination will be transferred to the
Government department responsible for the area in which the activity is taking place.
All public nominations must have at least two letters of support. When Departments
receive public nominations it becomes their responsibility and nominees must be
considered alongside the nominations which have come from the department’s
stakeholders and internal suggestions."
Yours faithfully,
Mark Taylor
Thank you for your email to the Honours and Appointments Secretariat, We
will aim to reply to you as soon as possible.
The honours nomination process
For more information about the honours process, please visit:
[1]https://www.gov.uk/honours. You may find it useful to refer to our
guidance [2]How to Write a Nomination. Alternatively you may want to watch
the following video: [3]Completing an Honours nomination form.
Update on a nomination
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please be aware that each nomination can take at least 18 months to be
fully considered, sometimes longer. We value further updates to the
nominee’s achievements, including further letters of support so please
feel free to submit them to us at any time.
Bravery and/or Gallantry Awards
If your emails concerns a Bravery or Civilian Gallantry award, please
take this as an automatic acknowledgement that we have received your
nomination. They will be actively considered.
"The object of giving medals, stars and ribbons is to give pride and
pleasure to those who have deserved them. At the same time a distinction
is something which everybody does not possess. If all have it, it is of
less value. There must, therefore, be heartburnings and disappointments on
the borderline. A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow. The task of
drawing up regulations for such awards is one which does not admit of a
perfect solution. It is not possible to satisfy everybody without running
the risk of satisfying nobody. All that is possible is to give the
greatest satisfaction to the greatest number and to hurt the feelings of
the fewest." Winston Churchill
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Dear Mr Taylor,
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In order for this information to be provided you will need to contact the
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I hope this information helps.
Kind Regards,
Anica
Honours and Appointments Secretariat
E: [2][Main Honours Advisory Committee request email] T: 0207 276 2777
Website: [3]https://honours.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
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