HL Deb 03 May 1949 vol 162 c232WA
VISCOUNT SWINTON

asked His Majesty's Government how the total numbers of the staff, enjoying diplomatic immunity, in the Soviet Embassy and in Missions of the satellite States, compare with the numbers of the French Embassy, similarly privileged.

THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (LORD HENDERSON)

The following statement shows the total numbers of the staffs—including diplomatic officers and officers engaged on clerical and similar duties—employed at the diplomatic missions maintained in London by the countries mentioned, whose names are included at the present time in the list of persons officially regarded as entitled to claim diplomatic privilege which is prepared in the Foreign Office in accordance with the Statute 7 Ann. Cap. 12:

Country Numbers of Staff
Diplomatic Clerical Total
U.S.S.R. 32 86 118
Poland 16 53 69
Yugoslavia 13 33 46
Czechoslovakia 10 34 44
Roumania 7 3 10
Hungary 5 11 16
Bulgaria 4 2 6
France 34 104 138

House adjourned at twenty-two minutes before seven o'clock.