OBE Paul Bleasdale - Head of the pensions and medical fitness unit, School Resources Group, Department for Children, Schools and Families. (Darlington) David Bowles - Chairman of Northern Defence Industries. For services to the defence industry.

(Sedgefield) Robert Coxon - Chairman of the Centre for Process Innovation. For services to the chemicals industry.

(Stockton) Margaret Elliott - For services to the community. (Sunderland) Victor Reginald Emery - Managing director, BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions. For services to the shipbuilding industry. (Newcastle) Dr Michael Grainger - Former headteacher, Barnard Castle CoE Primary School. For services to Education. (Bishop Auckland) Professor Elaine Barbara Martin - Professor in industrial statistics, Newcastle University. For services to science. (Newcastle) Nigel Jamie Martin - Managing partner, Ward Hadaway. For services to business. (Gosforth) Jean Orridge - Headteacher, High Clarence Primary School, Stockton. For services to Education. (Stockton) Katherine Margaret Welch - Chief executive of Acumen Community Enterprise Development Trust. For services to Social Enterprise. (Chester-le- Street) MBE Leslie Adams - For services to flood rescue. (York) Pauline Annan - Quality manager at the Social Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal.

(Newcastle) Roy Barker - Vice-chairman, Zetland Lifeboat Museum, RNLI.

For services to maritime safety.

(Middlesbrough) Paul Anthony Bielby - Founder of Master Skills Football Academy, Darlington. For services to young people. (Darlington) Norman Stansfield Cornish - For services to art. (Spennymoor) Sheila Davidson - Chief executive of The Bridge Project.

For services to women.

(Washington, Wearside) Richard Davies - Founder of the Own It scheme, Newcastle. For services to disadvantaged young people. (Newcastle) Sarah Derbyshire - Executive director of Live Music Now. For services to Music. (Malton, North Yorkshire) Robert Geoffrey Ford - Chairman of Ford Component Manufacturing Limited and South Tyneside Enterprise Partnership. For services to business. (Durham) David Hamilton - For services to the Bilton Youth Centre, Harrogate. (Harrogate) Reverend David Alan Hands - Bus driver, Sunderland depot.

For services to public transport.

(Sunderland) Thomas Joseph Keogan - Consultant for deaf services, Darlington Borough Council. For services to deaf people. (Coatham Mundeville, Durham) Alan Lindsley - For services to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

(Sunderland) Gary Lumby - Head of retail and small business banking, Yorkshire Bank. For services to the finance industry. (Durham) Anthony Lynn - For services to the community in Saltburn, east Cleveland. (Saltburn) Jacqueline Yvonne Matthews - For services to the Louise Brown Yorkshire Ballet Scholarship Centre. (Harrogate) Yvette McHugh - For services to children and the community in Dunnington, York. (York) Lilian Mina - Chairwoman of Royal Hall Restoration Trust. For services to the community.

(Harrogate) Marion Mullen - For services to the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.

(Newcastle) Jane Elizabeth Oakshott-Rastall - Founding director of York Guilds' Mystery Plays. For services to community drama. (Leeds) Carole Joan Pollard - Senior executive officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions. (Billingham) Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Charles Price - The Yorkshire Regiment.

Sandra Ann Reynolds - Senior executive officer, Pension Service, Department for Work and Pensions. (Consett) Beryl Splevins - Former education manager of Frankland Prison, Durham. For services to Education. (Newton Hall, Durham) Rodney George Gordon Taylor - Managing director of Seaward Electronic Limited and chairman of the Aspire Campaign. For services to business. (Swainby, North Yorkshire) Dr Delma Tomlin - For services to the arts. (York) Norma Town - For services to the community. (Darlington) Anthony Whitbourn - Foster carer, York. For services to families. (York) Wendy Whitbourn - Foster carer, York. For services to families.

(York, North Yorkshire) John Williams - Leader of Darlington Borough Council. For services to local government.

(Darlington) Christine Wilson - Former head of Courts Administration Durham, HM Courts Service. (Newton Aycliffe, Durham) Thomas Holmes Wood - Chairman of Ripon Select Foods Limited. For services to the food industry and the community in Ripon. (Harrogate) CBE Lynette Pamela Ann Barnes - Director of Ripon Council for Voluntary Service. For services to the voluntary sector. (Ripon) Audrey Ruth Burton - For charitable services. (Harrogate) Brendan Foster - Founder of the Great North Run. (Stocksfield) Dr David William Golding - For services to the World Poverty Campaign. (Whitley Bay, North Tyneside) Dr Bill Kirkup - Director-general of clinical programmes, Department of Health.

(Gateshead) Nigel John Ivo Stourton - For charitable services. (Bedale, North Yorkshire) Professor James Walvin - Emeritus Professor of History, York University. For services to scholarship. (York) VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL Warrant Officer Class 1 Shaun David Mallinson - The Yorkshire Regiment, Territorial Army.