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

If your query concerns an update on a nomination that you have submitted,
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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Honours and Appointments Secretariat
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Website: [5]https://honours.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
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References

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Dear Malcolm Webster,

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately your email does not constitute a valid request for
information as outlined in section 8(1)(c) of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000. The Act does not require public authorities to create new
information or to provide opinion or explanation in order to respond to a
request or query. The purpose of the Act is to consider the confirmation
or provision of recorded information that already exists. Advice on how to
make a valid request can be accessed on the Information Commissioner’s
website at: [1]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici...

Alternatively, if you would like your email treated as correspondence, you
can contact the Cabinet Office by accessing its web form at the following
website: [2]https://www.gov.uk/guidance/contact-the-...

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team

Cabinet Office

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