§ Lord Barnbyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether diplomatic privilege extends to cars parked on the pavement in narrow streets, thus endangering blind pedestrians and the flow of wheeled traffic.
§ Lord CarringtonArticle 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations provides that it is the duty of all persons entitled to privileges and immunities to respect the laws of the receiving state. Immunity is a bar to prosecution but the police can and do, in cases of severe obstruction, remove offending vehicles.
House adjourned at a quarter before eleven o'clock.