HC Deb 29 June 1976 vol 914 cc78-86W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases during each of the past five-year periods ending on the last available month for which records are available representatives of each of the embassies, high commissions and missions accredited to the Court of St. James's have been guilty of parking offences in respect whereof as a result of diplomatic immunity no fines have been paid; and how much would have been paid by each of these embassies, high commissions and missions concerned, had they not relied upon their diplomatic immunity.

Mr. John

The following table, compiled from provisional figures readily available from the Metropolitan Police, gives particulars of the total number of fixed penalty notices cancelled on grounds of diplomatic immunity from January 1971 to March 1976. It is not possible to give a breakdown by diplomatic mission of the final annual figures derived from statistical returns from all police forces in England and Wales. Owing to a major revision of the Metropolitan Police computer system, no figures broken down by diplomatic mission for the months June to September 1975 are available.

The amount of fixed penalty specified in each notice was £2 in the case of those issued up to 31st August 1975 and £6 in the case of those issued subsequently.

FIXED PENALTY NOTICES CANCELLED ON GROUNDS OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY
Number of notices cancelled
January to May October to December January to March
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1975 1976
Afghanistan 46 65 106 42 6 20 36
Algeria 43 73 116 149 73 51 54
Argentine Republic 305 423 466 780 297 262 300
Australia 22 33 39 93 37 17 17
Austria 13 23 37 31 12 37 20
Bahamas 2 1
Bahrain 52 201 95 58 50 98
Bangladesh 4 214 409 135 88 125
Barbados 188 210 491 458 80 127 75
Belgium 60 125 293 270 61 42 41
Bolivia 8 17 28 85 56 28 23
Botswana 2 1 5 5 5 2 7
Brazil 412 493 167 141 324
Bulgaria 424 563 657 925 530 451 573
Burma 45 66 113 223 41 35 83
Cameroon 101 253 418 289 56 37 65
Canada 72 124 231 289 70 34 75
Chile 236 199 102 50 60
China 21 18 35 138 113 52 84
Colombia 8 39 75 35 13 33 64
Costa Rica 7 11 95 66 13 5 9
Cuba 898 1,747 2,163 2,708 1,246 755 1,110
Cyprus 437 1,185 2,069 2,191 748 655 926
Czechoslovakia 97 63 144 175 66 42 47
Dahomey 11 1 7 5
Denmark 45 74 213 258 55 49 47
Dominican Republic 52 58 44 52 23 29 26
Ecuador 129 261 336 207 126 49 80
Egypt 1,449 1,318 2,008 1,651 532 607 884
El Salvador 66 57 39 68 68 96 100
Ethiopia 117 247 281 222 38 42 28
Fiji 18 17 4 4
Finland 128 68 169 338 163 167 158
France 281 481 650 1,101 691 495 751
Gabon 55 14 62 99 41 76 89
Gambia 4 116 352 58 73 74
German Democratic Republic 51 44 33 34

Number of notices cancelled
January to May October to December January to March
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1975 1976
Germany, Federal Republic of 107 135 166 260 71 51 81
Ghana 596 1,394 1,574 1,209 422 341 452
Greece 304 737 1,575 1,327 297 299 525
Guyana 67 104 277 255 53 14 15
Haiti 13 16 28 26 6 3 10
Honduras 2 74 239 88 37 38 21
Hungary 714 1,042 1,363 1,375 329 250 323
Iceland 8 12 12 7 7 13 7
India 322 456 511 485 106 86 96
Indonesia 314 578 677 646 265 198 358
Iran 825 1,291 1,496 2,807 942 656 793
Iraq 243 100 290 345 111 164 279
Ireland, Republic of 156 136 152 99 51 38 34
Israel 218 170 599 954 387 222 286
Italy 117 145 217 301 130 102 96
Ivory Coast 280 275 349 279 92 95 157
Jamaica 197 791 991 831 432 328 474
Japan 21 25 78 272 194 132 275
Jordan 280 307 516 504 243 235 313
Kenya 52 319 305 436 177 110 173
Khmer Republic 4 17 23 47 14
Korea 111 632 1,217 1,047 368 352 342
Kuwait 288 420 925 886 307 183 322
Laos 20 4 13 20 3 4 3
Lebanon 96 91 90 169 91 37 80
Lesotho 7 8 12 44 26 33 79
Liberia 142 165 148 130 37 8 6
Libya 209 462 658 598 219 82 190
Luxembourg 4 3 18 24 13 7 7
Malagasy Republic 94 212 535 377 117 23
Malawi 73 175 288 118 65 36 31
Malaysia 481 521 1,041 1,160 344 264 371
Malta, Republic of 51 96 190 215 110 113 163
Mauritius 25 62 88 182 50 16 29
Mexico 166 306 398 363 225 190 197
Monaco 1 1
Mongolia 18 7 25 30 2 10 12
Morocco 242 292 206 257 71 46 43

Number of notices cancelled
January to May October to December January to March
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1975 1976
Nepal 4 1 9 11 7 7 4
Netherlands 15 11 13 19 8 8 6
New Zealand 4 4 1
Nicaragua 46 3 31 68 14 5 3
Nigeria, Federal Republic of 2,062 2,792 3,210 3,124 1,104 1,478 1,282
Norway 45 78 64 71 37 11 16
Oman 8 29 130 70 78 117
Pakistan 516 1,205 1,848 1,402 754 464 609
Panama 31 61 141 124 63 75 52
Paraguay 106 225 337 202 108 72 59
Peru 230 344 545 424 162 56 82
Philippines 19 33 54 155 45 27 32
Poland 314 548 858 1,549 483 268 543
Portugal 85 119 270 180 75 64 101
Qatar 12 115 336 205 195 435
Romania 31 85 253 341 185 232 257
Rwanda 3
Saudi Arabia 1,316 1,518 2,375 1,937 692 569 596
Senegal 272 156 192 190 22 50 61
Sierra Leone 223 298 546 614 358 182 259
Singapore 3 18 38 31 26 19 24
Somali Democratic Republic 167 43 91 43 40 29 29
South Africa, Republic of 5 23 28 6 7 10 48
Soviet Union 337 211 421 672 301 230 302
Spain 32 69 166 245 156 166 170
Sri Lanka 217 188 347 271 113 57 66
Sudan 43 214 273 453 207 227 330
Swaziland 15 60 17 23 59
Sweden 1 3 11 16 5 12 29
Switzerland 33 34 53 33 25 15 13
Syrian Arab Republic 14 139 76 22 45
Tanzania 38 82 259 389 196 151 117
Thailand 95 383 668 1,068 360 228 179
Tonga 1 1 7 4 1 2
Trinidad and Tobago 50 127 348 351 107 55 51
Tunisia 223 317 423 484 138 94 128
Turkey 615 1,207 1,070 1,052 320 181 251

Number of notices cancelled
January to May October to December January to March
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1975 1976
Uganda 306 163 370 481 116 149 110
United Arab Emirates 105 119 181 70 65
United States of America 45 62 65 85 55 35 58
Uruguay 27 56 56 49 12 18 18
Venezuela 217 192 270 332 182 136 268
Vietnam 41 88 112 110 38
Yemen Arab Republic 23 65 259 282 57 53 57
Yemen, People's Democratic Republic 9 17 23 82 25 35 50
Yugoslavia 368 794 1,309 967 432 345 474
Zaire 71 178 330 378 164 131 167
Zambia 334 521 695 858 307 181 162
Commonwealth Secretariat 32 40 62 76 33 25 32
Eastern Caribbean Commission 5
EEC Commission 6 5 15 6 3 2 1
International Coffee Organisation 8 64 49 43 35 11
Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation 9 21 46 8 9 14 14
Western European Union 9 13 22 13 1 10
United Nations 1 17
Totals 20,661 31,892 48,798 52,839 20,398 16,106 21,013