§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in order those six countries with embassies and missions in London which owe the most in unpaid parking fines, and the total owing in each case, at the latest available date.
§ Mr. JohnThe following table gives the latest information which is available from the Metropolitan Police computer records. It shows the seven diplomatic missions in respect of which the most fixed penalty notices were cancelled from October 1975 to February 1976 inclusive:
Nigeria, Federal Republic of 2,293 Cuba 1,408 Cyprus 1,183 Iran 1,140 Egypt 1,056 France 871 Saudi Arabia 871 The amount of the fixed penalty specified in each notice was £6. There is no question of sums being owed in respect of cancelled notices, since the cancellation of a penalty notice on grounds of diplomatic immunity necessarily involves the cancellation of any debt which would otherwise be due as a result of it.