New Year Honours 2026
Colin Lee CB
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
• Chamber and Participation Team
“For services to Parliament.”
London Gazette notice
Order of the Bath
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2025
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:
C.B.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the said Most Honourable Order:
Colin Geoffrey LEE
lately Clerk of Legislation, Chamber and Participation Team, House of Commons
For services to Parliament.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64940 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to Parliament.”
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How common is this award?
The Companion of the Order of the Bath was awarded 15 times in the New Year Honours List 2026 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
68 Companion of the Order of the Bath recipients are from Greater London.
What organisation were they with?
Chamber and Participation Team.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Companion of the Order of the Bath in the New Year Honours 2026
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“For services to Technology and to Public Service.”
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Joanna Shanmugalingam
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Bath, Somerset
“For services to Transport and Innovation.”
Katherine Green
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London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Nicholas Joyce
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East Grinstead, West Sussex
“For services to Transport.”
Richard Clarke
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Amersham, Buckinghamshire
“For Public Service.”
Sarah Johansen
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Companion of the Order of the Bath · 2026
London Gazette (official record), issue 64940, notice 5027376. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2026).
Published 29 December 2025.
Location (London, Greater London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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