HC Deb 22 October 1969 vol 788 cc252-4W
Dr. Bennett

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 since the last list was compiled in November, 1968; and on how many occasions.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

During the period of ten months from 1st November, 1968, there were 26,145 cases in which members of diplomatic missions did not respond to a fixed penalty notice issued under Section 80 of the Road Traffic Regulations Act, 1967. Particulars are as follows:

Afghanistan 27
Algeria 12
Argentine 423
Australia 32
Austria 23
Barbados 15
Bolivia 45
Botswana 25
Belgium 123
Brazil 9
Bulgaria 697
Burma 59
Cambodia 13
Cameroon 58
Canada 96
Ceylon 857
China 17
Colombia 34
Congo 1,095
Costa Rica 4
Cuba 202
Cyprus 453
Czechoslovakia 873
Denmark 12
Dominican Republic 23
Ecuador 63
El Salvador 61
Ethiopia 193
Finland 130
France 37
Gambia 17
Federal Republic of Germany 130
Ghana 913
Greece 884
Guinea 2
Guyana 96
Haiti 41
Hungary 2,601
Republic of Ireland 125
Iceland 1
India 248
Indonesia 177
Iran 676
Iraq 268
Israel 220
Italy 89
Ivory Coast 656
Jamaica 699
Japan 19
Jordan 273
Kenya 241
Korea 31
Kuwait 467
Laos 4
Lebanon 22
Liberia 142
Libya 98
Luxembourg 1
Malagasy 29
Malawi 8
Malaysia 244
Malta 30
Mauritania 2
Mauritius 2
Mexico 440
Morocco 178
Nepal 2
Netherlands 53
New Zealand 1
Nicaragua 17
Niger 251
Nigeria 830
Norway 94
Pakistan 567
Panama 40
Paraguay 131
Peru 272
Philippines 9
Poland 1,174
Portugal 75
Qatar 1
Roumania 33
Saudi Arabia 1,729
Senegal 139
Somali 170
Sierra Leone 364
Singapore 24
South Africa 5
Spain 41
Sudan 148
Sweden 7
Switzerland 34
Syria 1
Tanzania 13
Thailand 37
Trinidad and Tobago 28
Tunisia 153
Turkey 692
Uganda 582
United Arab Republic 999
U.S.A. 57
U.S.S.R. 130
Uruguay 4
Uganda 582
Venezuela 194
Yemen 10
Yugoslavia 173
Zambia 494
Total 26,145