HC Deb 04 December 1969 vol 792 cc344-6W
Dr. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will supply a table of the traffic offences committed and repudiated by persons in London claiming diplomatic immunity, as listed by him on 22nd October, 1969, relating these to the numbers of immune persons in each Mission in London and expressing the answer in terms of average offences per head of each Mission over the relevant period; and if he will supply this information to the heads of all the Missions concerned.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

The present numbers of persons connected with the diplomatic Missions listed in the Answer given on 22nd October who are entitled to immunity in varying degrees are shown below. I regret that figures for Syria and Qatar were included in the previous Answer in error. These totals are not constant, and include persons who do not drive. The numbers of persons and of fixed penalty notices are therefore not capable of reduction to meaningful averages.

Afghanistan 7
Algeria 8
Argentine 40
Australia 375
Austria 32
Barbados 25
Belgium 80
Bolivia 11
Botswana 6
Brazil 85
Bulgaria 53
Burma 45
Cambodia 5
Cameroon 16
Canada 370
Ceylon 59
China 67
Colombia 10
Congo 23
Costa Rica 2
Cuba 51
Cyprus 37
Czechoslovakia 136
Denmark 73
Dominican Republic 5
Ecuador 10
E1 Salvador 7
Ethiopia 11
Finland 43
France 230
Gambia 5
Federal Republic of Germany 198
Ghana 105
Greece 47
Guinea 2
Guyana 13

Haiti 4
Hungary 53
Iceland 6
India 805
Indonesia 70
Iraq 60
Iran 70
Republic of Ireland 57
Israel 123
Italy 150
Ivory Coast 16
Jamaica 60
Japan 91
Jordan 46
Kenya 21
Korea 20
Kuwait 19
Laos 6
Lebanon 10
Liberia 16
Libya 19
Luxembourg 6
Malagasy 19
Malawi 12
Malaysia 61
Malta 32
Mauritania 4
Mauritius 10
Mexico 28
Morocco 20
Nepal 9
Netherlands 145
New Zealand 92
Nicaragua 4
Niger 5
Nigeria 123
Norway 66
Pakistan 166
Panama 4
Paraguay 6
Peru 19
Philippines 19
Poland 96
Portugal 44
Roumania 81
Saudi Arabia 44
Senegal 8
Sierra Leone 43
Singapore 17
Somali 6
South Africa 81
Spain 114
Sudan 30
Sweden 52
Switzerland 61
Tanzania 15
Thailand 60
Trinidad and Tobago 22
Tunisia 13
Turkey 83
Uganda 18
United Arab Republic 87
U.S.A 310
U.S.S.R 256
Uruguay 7
Venezuela 37
Yemen 1
Yugoslavia 52
Zambia 32