New Year Honours are published each year normally on the last Saturday in December.  They reflect and pay tribute to oustanding achievement and service.  Their service will have been of direct benefit to the United Kingdom or reflected great credit on the United Kingdom.

A key aim has been to reward those people who have made a significant contribution, or who have given outstanding service to others in difficult situations.

This is the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List for 2008.

Order of St Michael and St George

GCMG
Sir David Geoffrey MANNING, KCMG, CVO
Lately HM Ambassador, Washington

D/KCMG
Ms Barbara Logon HAY, CMG, MBE
HM Consul-General, British Consulate General, Istanbul

Charles Richard Vernon STAGG, CMG
Lately Director General Corporate Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

CMG
Hamish St.Clair DANIEL, OBE
Deputy High Commissioner, British Deputy High Commission, Karachi, and Director of Trade and Investment for Pakistan

Miss Janet Elizabeth DOUGLAS
Lately Head of Consular Assistance Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Michael Joseph O'SULLIVAN
Lately Regional Director China, British Council

Dr Andrew John POCOCK
HM Ambassador, Harare

Michael RYDER
Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Kabul

Miss Katherine Lucy SMITH
Lately Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Tehran

Order of the Bath

CB
Clifford Christopher COCKS
Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Order of the British Empire

KBE
David Frank RICHMOND, CMG
Lately Director General, Defence and Intelligence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

David TANG Wing-Cheung, OBE
For charitable services in the UK and British interests in Hong Kong

CBE
Bishop Charles CARUANA
For charitable services in Gibraltar

Professor Richard Salisbury ELLIS
For services to science

Alexander Andrew FLOCKHART
For services to British business and charitable interests in Mexico

OBE
Jonathan ASHERSON
For services to British commercial and wider interests in Singapore and South East Asia

Ms Glenda Adrianne BAILEY
For services to British journalism and British fashion in the USA

Mrs Mary Kayitesi BLEWITT
For services to the survivors of the Rwandan genocide in Rwanda and the UK

Martin John BROOKS
For services to security and stability in South Serbia

Rohan Richard COURTNEY
For services to Anglo-Australian relations

Frank Philip DAMM
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

David Allen DRAKE
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dr James Gregory GOLLOGLY
For surgical/medical assistance to handicapped children and acid burn victims in Cambodia

Eric Gordon HILL
Author and illustrator of Spot. For services to children's literacy

Vit KOLÁR
For services to BBC World Service radio broadcasting in the Czech Republic

Dr Shirley MCGREAL
For services to the protection of primates

Andrew Kerry PIKE
Consul (Northern Ireland), British Consulate General, New York

Paul Andrew RAMSAY, MBE
First Secretary, British Consulate General, Istanbul

Carl Henry REUTER
Lately British Council Director, Libya

Ms Abda Parveen SHARIF
Lately Legal Adviser, British Embassy, Baghdad

Richard Knight WILLIAMS
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dr Christopher Harald WOOD
For services to healthcare in East Africa

Ms Ethel Caroline YON, MBE
Deputy Chief Secretary, St Helena

MBE
Dr David Gwyn ASTON
For services to landmine victims, amputees and other disabled people in Cambodia

John Bryan BOTHWELL
For services to the community and the financial industry in the Cayman Islands

Mrs Patricia Mary Bernadette COLES
Acting First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Mrs Patricia Rosemary CORBY
For services to UK/Holy See relations

Ms Jennifer Joan CORKER
For services to the public and private sectors and to civil society in St Helena

Rex Herbert Hughes CRIGHTON, JP
For services to the development of the Cayman Islands and charitable interests

Hubert Eugene DEAN
Lately Commissioner of Corrections, Bermuda

Trevor Kenneth DUDLEY
For services to children's sports and health education in Uganda

James Joseph FERRO
Lately Captain of the Port of Gibraltar

Ms Jean GILCHRIST
For services to animal welfare in Kenya

Gordon Thomas HOWARD
For services to the elderly in Zimbabwe

Mrs Katharine HOWARD
For services to the elderly in Zimbabwe

Elvet Macmurtry HUGHES
For services to education and charitable interests in Anguilla

Robert John LAMBURNE
UK Director of Forensic Services, Iraq. For services to policing in Iraq

Ms Lynn LI
Senior Commercial Officer, British Trade and Cultural Office, Taiwan

Miss Mary MALONEY
Second Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dr Lawrence Hood MITCHELL
For services to community development in Nigeria

Dr Fouzia Murtuza MOHIUD-DIN
For services to British pilgrims on the Hajj pilgrimage

Dr Syed Mustafa MOHIUD-DIN
For services to British pilgrims on the Hajj pilgrimage

Ms Alison Suzanne POCKETT
Lately President, British Chamber of Commerce in Japan. For services to the British Chamber of Commerce and charitable interests in Japan

The Revd Donald StJohn REEVES
For services to interfaith work, peace-building and conflict-resolution in Bosnia Herzegovina

Ms Evelyn Terry SHEAR
Vice Consul, UK Trade and Investment, British Embassy, Washington

Ms Jennifer Mary STONE-WIGG
For services to the destitute and disabled in Bosnia Herzegovina

Adam John TARPLEE
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Ms Helen Marie VIPASS
For charitable services to families and children in crisis in Latvia

Ms Anne WOLFENDEN
Second Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Cummings Vail ZUILL
For services to charitable interests in Bermuda