Michael Rigby Barlow, Grade 3, Northern Ireland Office. Charles Richard Cann, Grade 2, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Peter Clapham, lately Chief Executive, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Trade and Industry. Thomas Nisbet Gallagher, Her Majesty's Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Office. John Francis Howe, , Grade 2, Ministry of Defence. Norman Barrie Hudson, Grade 3, Overseas Development Administration. Lewis Harry Hughes, Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office. Peter Francis Arnold Knowles, Parliamentary Counsel, Parliamentary Counsel Office. Stephen Charles Laws, Parliamentary Counsel, Parliamentary Counsel Office. William Robert McKay, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons. John Michael Moss, Grade 3, Ministry of Defence. David Lindsay Corbett Peretz, Deputy Director, Her Majesty's Treasury. Terence Charles Platt, Grade 2, Home Office. John Frederick Shaw, Grade 2, Department of Health. David Homfray Slater, Chief Inspector, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution, Department of the Environment. Clive Fenemore Tucker, Grade 3, Department for Education and Employment. Eugenie Christine Turton, Grade 2, Cabinet Office (OPS). Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State and Political Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Peter John Goulden, , UK Permanent Representative, North Atlantic Council, Brussels. Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) David Ronald William Bryer, Director of OXFAM. For charitable services. Professor Ernest Demetrios Hondros, lately Director, Petten Establishment, Commission of the European Community's Joint Research Centre. For services to Science. Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Roger Bridgland Bone, HM Ambassador, Stockholm. Desmond Hugh Cecil, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alan Charlton, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. George Robert Acworth Conquest, . For services to the study of international affairs. Richard John Dalton, HM Consul-General, Jerusalem. Christopher Owen Hum, HM Ambassador-designate, Warsaw. David Christopher Andrew Madden, British High Commissioner, Nicosia. Peter James Marshall, Chargé d'Affaires, Algiers. Peter Pooley, lately Acting Director-General (DG VIII), Commission of the European Union. Robert John Sawers, lately Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Anne Elizabeth Stoddart, Deputy Permanent UK Representative to the United Nations, Geneva. Royal Victorian Order Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Adrian Francis Patrick Barnes, Remembrancer, The City of London. Herrick Cyril William Bunney, , Organist and Master of Music, St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. Commander Hugh