HC Deb 09 May 1963 vol 677 cc93-4W
Mr. Mason

asked the Lord Privy Seal how many Embassy officials of other nations resident in the United Kingdom have been granted diplomatic immunity, specifying the numbers in each Embassy.

Mr. P. Thomas

1,952 officials in foreign Missions, resident in the United Kingdom, are accorded full diplomatic immunity. An additional 209 officials are granted, on a basis of reciprocity, immunity restricted to their official acts only.

The numbers in each Mission are as follows:

Full Immunity Restricted Immunity
Afghanistan 4
Argentina 13 11
Austria 20
Belgium 43
Bolivia 3
Brazil 13 17
Bulgaria 16
Burma 34
Cambodia 7
Cameroon 3
Chile 9
China 34
Colombia 4
Congo (Leopoldville) 4
Costa Rica 3
Cuba 14
Czechoslovakia 63
Denmark 41
Dominican Republic 6
Ecuador 5
El Salvador 3
Ethiopia 6
Finland 11 7
France 40 117
Gabon 3
Germany 130
Greece 23
Guatemala 6
Haiti 1
Honduras 2
Hungary 39
Iceland 4
Indonesia 46
Iran 25

Full Immunity Restricted Immunity
Iraq 30
Israel 48
Italy 77
Ivory Coast 11
Japan 41
Jordan 16
Korea 8
Kuwait 10
Laos 4
Lebanon 4 3
Liberia 5
Libya 11
Luxembourg 2
Malagasy Republic 7
Mali 5
Mexico 6
Morocco 12
Nepal 5
Netherlands 81
Nicaragua 1
Norway 33
Panama 4
Paraguay 3
Peru 5
Philippines 14
Poland 41
Portugal 21
Roumania 30
Senegal 5
South Africa 54
Soviet Union 106
Spain 49
Sudan 17
Sweden 29
Switzerland 13 30
Syria 17
Thailand 30
Tunisia 5
Turkey 32
U.A.R. 48
U.S.A. 294
Uruguay 5
Venezuela 10
Viet-Nam 17
Yemen 2
Yugoslavia 16 24
Total 1,952 209

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