The 2010 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 28 May 2010 at the advice of the outgoing Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The list was gazetted on 15 June.^[1]

Life peerages

Conservative

• Timothy Eric Boswell - former Whip and Parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Angela Frances Browning - former Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Rt Hon. John Selwyn Gummer - former Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and held other senior posts in government and opposition.
• Rt Hon. Michael Howard QC - former Home Secretary, Leader of the Conservative Party, and held other senior posts in government and opposition.
• John Craddock Maples - former Economic Secretary, and held other senior posts in government and opposition.
• Sir Michael Spicer - former Government Minister for Housing and Chairman of Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.

Labour

• Rt Hon. Hilary Jane Armstrong - former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Social Exclusion, and held other senior posts in government.
• Rt Hon. Desmond (Des) Henry Browne - former Secretary of State for Defence and held other senior posts in government.
• Rt Hon. Quentin Davies - former Government Minister, Defence.
• Rt Hon. Beverley Hughes - former Minister of State, Children, Schools and Families.
• Rt Hon. John Hutton - former Secretary of State for Business, and held other senior posts in government.
• Rt Hon. James (Jim) Philip Knight, Former Minister of State.
• Rt Hon. Tommy McAvoy - former Government Deputy Chief Whip.
• Rt Hon. John McFall - former Chair of Treasury Select Committee and MP for West Dunbartonshire.
• Rt Hon. John Leslie Prescott - former Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State, and held other senior posts in government.
• Rt Hon. Dr John Reid - former Home Secretary, and held other senior posts in government.
• Rt Hon. Angela Evans Smith (of Basildon) - former Minister of State, Cabinet Office.
• Rt Hon. James Donnelly (Don) Touhig - former Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Minister for Veterans), Ministry of Defence.
• Rt Hon. Michael David Wills - former Minister of State, Ministry of Justice.

Liberal Democrats

• Richard Allan - former MP for Sheffield Hallam and Chair of the Information Select Committee.
• Matthew Owen John Taylor - former MP for Truro and St Austell, Chair of National Housing Federation.
• George Philip (Phil) Willis - former MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, Former Chair of Science and Technology Select Committee.

Democratic Unionist Party

• Rt Hon. Ian R K Paisley - former First Minister and DUP Leader.

Crossbench

• Sir Ian Blair - former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Working peers

Conservative

• Guy Vaughan Black - former Director of Press Complaints Commission and executive director of Telegraph Media Group.
• Dame Margaret Eaton DBE - Chairman of Local Government Association.
• Edward Peter Lawless Faulks QC - barrister, leading practitioner, crime and personal injuries practice.
• John Gardiner - Deputy Chief Executive of Countryside Alliance.
• Helen Margaret Newlove - campaigner against anti-social behaviour.
• Doral Amarshi Popat - businessman, Chief Executive of TLC Group, specialising in healthcare and hospitality.
• Shireen Olive Ritchie - Local Government Councillor, specialises in areas of adult and children's social care.
• Deborah Stedman-Scott OBE DL FRSA - Chief Executive of Tomorrow's People, national employment charity working in deprived areas of UK.
• Nat Wei - a member of Teach First's founding team and also a founder of Future Leaders.
• Hon Simon Adam Wolfson - Chief Executive of NEXT plc.

Labour

• Sir Jeremy Hugh Beecham DL - senior figure in English local government and first Chairman of the Local Government Association.
• Rt Hon. Paul Boateng - former Government Minister and MP for Brent South.
• Rita Margaret Donaghy CBE - former Chair Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
• Jeannie Drake - former Deputy General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union.
• Dr Dianne Hayter - Chair of Legal Services Consumer Panel.
• Anna Healy - former Government and political adviser, serving in numerous government departments.
• Roy Kennedy - Labour Party's Director of Finance and Compliance, long serving member of the Labour Party.
• Rt Hon. Helen Liddell - former Secretary State of Scotland.
• Roger John Liddle - former Special Adviser on Europe.
• Rt Hon. Dr Jack Wilson McConnell - former First Minister of Scotland.
• John Monks - General Secretary, European Trades Union Confederation.
• Sue Nye - former Director of Government Relations, Prime Minister's Office.
• Maeve Sherlock OBE - former Chief Executive of the Refugee Council and Former Special Advisor to Chancellor.
• Robert Wilfrid (Wilf) Stevenson - former Director of the Smith Institute and Special Adviser to the PM.
• Margaret Wheeler MBE - Director of Organisation and Staff Development for the public service union UNISON.
• Michael Williams - former Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs.

Liberal Democrats

• Floella Benjamin OBE DL - actor, presenter and campaigner for children's issues.
• Mike German OBE AM - former Deputy First Minister (Wales).
• Meral Hussein Ece OBE - Local Government Councillor in Islington, advocate of equality issues.
• Sir Kenneth (Ken) Macdonald QC - former Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Kathryn (Kate) Jane Parminter - former Chief Executive of Campaign to Protect Rural England.
• John Shipley OBE - leading Local Government Councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Knights Bachelor

• William (Bill) O’Brien - former MP for Normanton 1983–2005.
• Rt Hon. Ian McCartney - former Minister of State, FCO and DTI and held other senior posts in government.

Refusals

Outgoing Labour MP Keith Hill claimed he was offered a knighthood but declined it, saying he would find the title "embarrassing".^[2]