HC Deb 22 November 1968 vol 773 cc339-40W
Mr. Whitaker

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which are the countries whose diplomats have declined to pay traffic penalties in the Metropolitan area; and on how many occasions.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

During the first ten months of 1968 there were 12,566 cases in which members of Diplomatic Missions did not respond to a fixed penalty notice issued under Section 80 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967. Particulars are as follows:

Afghanistan 38
Algeria 13
Argentine 115
Australia 43
Austria 11
Bahrain 1
Barbados 4
Belgium 96
Bolivia 1
Botswana 9
Bulgaria 193
Burma 62
Cambodia 2
Cameroon 44
Canada 53
Ceylon 151
China 2
Colombia 27
Democratic Republic of the Congo 411
Costa Rica 1
Cuba 37
Cyprus 233
Czechoslovakia 283
Denmark 17
Dominican Republic 3
Ecuador 58
E1 Salvador 2
Ethiopia 79
Finland 31
France 131
Gambia 1
Federal Republic of Germany 140
Ghana 736
Greece 492
Guatemala 1
Guyana 24
Haiti 47
Honduras 1
Hungary 681
Iceland 3
India 98
Indonesia 65
Iran 166
Iraq 141
Republic of Ireland 145
Israel 77
Italy 46
Ivory Coast 356
Jamaica 351
Japan 14
Jordan 120
Kenya 64
Korea 20
Kuwait 352
Laos 1
Lebanon 24
Liberia 75
Libya 33
Luxembourg 1
Malagasy Republic 8
Malawi 16
Malaysia 241
Malta 19
Mauritius 5
Mexico 168
Morocco 95
Nepal 1
Netherlands 31
New Zealand 13
Nicaragua 7
Nigeria 802
Norway 29
Pakistan 154
Panama 27
Paraguay 9
Peru 159
Philippines 6
Poland 950
Portugal 24
Qatar 1
Rumania 62
Saudi Arabia 495
Senegal 181
Sierra Leone 189
Singapore 24
Somalie Republic 8
South Africa 10
Spain 20
Sudan 68
Sweden 9
Switzerland 17
Thailand 32
Trinidad and Tobago 3
Tunisia 61
Turkey 564
Uganda 583
U.S.S.R 92
United Arab Republic 238
U.S.A 90
Uruguay 37
Venezuela 63
Vietnam 20
Yemen 3
Yugoslavia 103
Zambia 403
Total 12,566