§ Mr. GapesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish figures recording the number of parking fines incurred by diplomatic missions and organisations in London during 1997. [51895]
§ Mr. Tony LloydDuring 1997 the London diplomatic missions and organisations incurred a total of 2,480 unpaid parking fines. In 1996 the figure was 1,674. In April this year the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to all diplomatic missions and organisations to give them an opportunity to pay off all outstanding parking tickets, or appeal to have the ticket cancelled. Since then payments totalling £84,665.00 have been received, compared with £48,640.00 in 1997. The table shows only missions which have 11 or more fines outstanding.
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Unpaid Parking Fines Position/Diplomatic mission 1997 1996 1 Turkey 97 45 2 Egypt 92 49 3 Oman 91 39 4 Indonesia 82 0 5 Kazakhstan 80 0 6 Cameroon 79 44 6 Cuba 79 40
Unpaid Parking Fines Position/Diplomatic mission 1997 1996 8 Cyprus 76 33 9 Sudan 73 0 10 Nigeria 62 0 11 Ethiopia 61 10 11 Morocco 61 37 13 Jordan 59 36 13 Thailand 59 50 15 Brunei 58 14 16 Greece 56 13 17 Malaysia 52 71 18 India 50 43 19 Kenya 47 34 20 Angola 46 0 21 Hungary 44 40 22 Georgia 43 4 23 Russia 42 35 24 Afghanistan 37 18 24 Poland 37 18 26 Portugal 36 26 26 Zimbabwe 36 26 26 Albania 36 12 29 Iran 34 2 29 Tunisia 34 23 31 Bangladesh 32 62 32 Armenia 29 13 32 Tanzania 29 20 32 Algeria 29 21 35 Yemen 28 7 36 Ghana 27 47 36 Lithuania 27 10 38 Pakistan 26 61 39 Philippines 24 39 40 Cote d'Ivorie 23 7 40 Uganda 23 30 42 Mongolia 19 6 43 Spain 18 14 44 Romania 17 33 44 Germany 17 12 46 Qatar 16 42 46 Uzbekistan 16 9 48 Liberia 15 12 48 Luxembourg 15 3 48 USA 15 8 51 Italy 14 2 51 Nicaragua 14 2 53 Peru 13 13 54 Canada 12 7 54 Mauritius 12 11 56 Bulgaria 11 21 Total 2,260 1,274