Birthday Honours 2024
Peter Schofield KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Director General • Housing and Planning
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 2024
“For Public Service.”
Companion of the Order of the Bath · 2017
“For services to Housing and Planning.”
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London Gazette notice
Order of the Bath
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
15 June 2024
THE KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:
K.C.B.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commander, of the said Most Honourable Order:
Peter Hugh Gordon SCHOFIELD C.B.
Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions
For Public Service.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64423 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
London Gazette notice
Order of the Bath
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
17 June 2017
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotion 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:
Peter Hugh Gordon SCHOFIELD
lately Director General, Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government
For services to Housing and Planning.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61961 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Companion of the Order of the Bath
Birthday Honours 2017- Role at the time
- Director General, Housing and Planning
- Region
- Surrey
“For services to Housing and Planning.”
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Birthday Honours 2024- Role at the time
- lately Permanent Secretary
- Region
- Redhill, Surrey
“For Public Service.”
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The Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was awarded 4 times in the Birthday Honours List 2024.
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1 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath recipient is from Surrey.
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lately Permanent Secretary.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64423, notice 4644601. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2024).
Published 14 June 2024.
Companion of the Order of the Bath · 2017
London Gazette (official record), issue 61961, notice 2803383. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2017).
Published 16 June 2017.
Location (Surrey) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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