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The 2024 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 4 July 2024, the day of the 2024 United Kingdom general election.^[1][2]

Life peerages

Conservative

• The Rt Hon Sir Graham Brady – Lately Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale West, and Chairman of the 1922 Committee
• The Rt Hon Chris Grayling – Lately Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell, and former Secretary of State for Transport, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and Leader of the House of Commons
• The Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing DBE – Lately Member of Parliament for Epping Forest, lately Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
• Craig Mackinlay JP – Lately Member of Parliament for South Thanet.
• The Rt Hon Theresa May – Lately Member of Parliament for Maidenhead, former Prime Minister and Home Secretary
• The Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma KCMG – Lately Member of Parliament for Reading West and former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Secretary of State for International Development and President for COP26
• Liam Booth-Smith – Lately No 10 Downing Street Chief of Staff

Labour

• The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Beckett GBE – Former Foreign Secretary and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
• John Cryer – Lately Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead
• The Rt Hon Harriet Harman KC – Lately Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, and formerly Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
• The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge DBE – Lately Member of Parliament for Barking and former Minister of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• The Rt Hon Kevan Jones – Lately Member of Parliament for North Durham and former Minister for Veterans at the Ministry of Defence
• Barbara Keeley – Lately Member of Parliament for Worsley and Eccles South and formerly Shadow Minister for Music and Tourism
• The Rt Hon John Spellar – Lately Member of Parliament for Warley and formerly Comptroller of the Household in the Whips' Office
• The Rt Hon Dame Rosie Winterton DBE – Lately Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central and former Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons

Liberal Democrats

• Caroline Pidgeon MBE – Lately Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly

Ulster Unionist Party

• Thomas Elliott MLA – Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party

Crossbench peerages

• Minette Batters – Former President of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales
• Dr Hilary Cass OBE FRCN FRCGP – Former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE – Deputy Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office. Formerly Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Chairman of the Conservative Party. For political and public service.
• The Rt Hon Julian Smith CBE – Formerly Government Chief Whip and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. For political and public service.
• The Rt Hon Robert Ben Wallace – Formerly Secretary of State for Defence. For Political and public service.

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

• The Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey – Formerly Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. For political and public service.

Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

• The Rt Hon Alister Jack DL – Formerly Secretary of State for Scotland. For political and public service.

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