§ Commander Courtneyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many United Kingdom nationals below the rank of diplomatic agent and attached to British missions in the capitals of the four countries with whom Her Majesty's Government has special reciprocal arrangements will in future possess personal immunity and inviolability of residence in excess of that allowed to their rank under the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations; and what is the nature of their present employment in the missions concerned.
§ Mr. MathewThere are at present 128 United Kingdom citizens below the rank of diplomatic agent, together with 61 wives, attached to Her Majesty's Diplomatic Missions in the capitals concerned, the maintenance of whose immunity and inviolability at the present level is guaranteed by the reciprocal arrangements to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers.
These individuals are employed in the administrative and technical service of Her Majesty's Missions, or as domestic servants.