§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether any requests have been made to the Royal Jordanian embassy for a waiver of diplomatic immunity in respect of any of their employees; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. EggarIt has not been the practice to reveal the names of individual missions to which we have applied for waivers of diplomatic immunity.
If my hon. Friend has in mind recent press reports of a case involving alleged indecent assault, it is in our view most unlikely that the courts would regard diplomatic immunity as applying in that instance: the question of a waiver is not therefore relevant.