§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are the alleged offences of each of the nine British diplomatic service officers serving abroad who escaped prosecution by virtue of their diplomatic immunity, the dates on which they occurred and the countries in which they occurred; and, what, in each case, happened to the officer.
§ Mr. RifkindThe incidents in question, which occurred during the last 10 years, arose out of five disturbances of public order, three traffic accidents involving injury or death, and one contravention of customs regulations. In five of the cases we considered 921W that the evidence was sufficiently strong to justify formal disciplinary action under diplomatic service regulations—the penalties ranged from a reprimand to dismissal.
It would not be appropriate to itemise each incident since inquiries by the local authorities were not completed in some cases, none of the individuals was charged and none of the incidents was brought to court.