HC Deb 01 February 1978 vol 943 c180W
Mr. Stanbrook

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report his estimate of the total number of persons at present visiting or passing through the United Kingdom, who are entitled to any form of diplomatic privilege on their own account or as members of families or staff of foreign diplomats and internatinal organisations; and what is his estimate of future entitlement to such privileges.

Mr. Tomlinson

There is no formal procedure for the notification to the Secretary of State of persons visiting or passing through the United Kingdom who are entitled to diplomatic privileges and immunities. It is accordingly not possible to give an estimate of the number of such persons who are present in the United Kingdom at a particular time, nor to estimate the number of people likely to be visiting the United Kingdom in the future and to whom privileges and immunities would be due.