To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish figures recording the number of unpaid parking fines incurred by diplomatic missions in London during 1992.
The information requested by my hon. Friend is given in the table. The table also includes those international organisations which incurred unpaid fines. The figures may be reduced by late payments.
The total of 4,166 represents a 19 per cent. reduction from the same period in 1991 when 5,145 fines were incurred. This compares favourably with the same period in 1984 when almost 108,932 fines were recorded. We welcome this further reduction in unpaid parking fines and appreciate the cooperation of diplomatic missions and international organisations since the introduction of the parking policy. We shall continue to monitor carefully the level of unpaid fines and pressure diplomatic missions to reduce this still further.
Unpaid parking fines
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Diplomatic mission
| 1992
| 1991
|
| Turkey | 245 | 130 |
| Russia | 226 | 363 |
| France | 182 | 95 |
| Nigeria | 167 | 159 |
| China | 159 | 140 |
| Greece | 153 | 150 |
| United Arab Emirates | 128 | 21 |
| Saudi Arabia (1991 includes Libyan Interests Sec.) | 127 | 200 |
| Zambia | 117 | 63 |
| Cote D'Ivoire | 106 | 121 |
| Israel | 86 | 204 |
| Korea | 85 | 116 |
| Kuwait | 85 | 0 |
| Tunisia | 81 | 43 |
| Thailand | 80 | 72 |
| Cameroon | 70 | 38 |
| Sudan | 70 | 123 |
| Poland | 69 | 154 |
| Egypt | 68 | 78 |
| India | 66 | 73 |
| Gambia | 63 | 56 |
| Romania | 62 | 34 |
| Cyprus | 62 | 55 |
| Uruguay | 61 | 57 |
| Hungary | 60 | 68 |
| Germany | 60 | 65 |
| Spain | 60 | 45 |
| Oman | 59 | 52 |
| Pakistan | 57 | 97 |
| Qatar | 52 | 94 |
| Morocco | 48 | 117 |
| Ghana | 48 | 84 |
| Libyan Interests Sec, Saudi Arabia | 44 | — |
| Portugal | 42 | 40 |
| Bangladesh | 41 | 49 |
| Zimbabwe | 38 | 38 |
| Jordan | 38 | 89 |
| Mauritius | 38 | 13 |
| Angola | 35 | 11 |
| Algeria | 34 | 11 |
| Bulgaria | 33 | 81 |
| Gabon | 32 | 25 |
| Barbados | 29 | 54 |
| Malaysia | 27 | 26 |
| United States | 26 | 17 |
| Brazil | 25 | 26 |
| Italy | 25 | 34 |
| Brunei | 24 | 30 |
| Tanzania | 23 | 47 |
| Syria | 22 | 16 |
| Zaire | 20 | 7 |
| Mexico | 19 | 6 |
| Senegal | 19 | 2 |
| Malawi | 18 | 20 |
| Bahrain | 18 | 35 |
| Finland | 16 | 25 |
| Venezuela | 16 | 17 |
| Lebanon | 14 | 9 |
| Ethiopia | 14 | 27 |
| Japan | 14 | 16 |
| Ireland | 13 | 5 |
| Yugoslavia | 12 | 41 |
| Iran | 12 | 13 |
Diplomatic mission
| 1992
| 1991
|
| Kenya | 12 | 6 |
| Yemen | 12 | 20 |
| Jamaica | 11 | 11 |
| Nepal | 11 | 7 |
| Iraqi Interest Section, Jordan | 11 | 38 |
| Cuba | 11 | 13 |
| Canada | 10 | 135 |
| Lesotho | 10 | 7 |
| Philippines | 10 | 8 |
| Paraguay | 10 | 6 |
| Fiji | 9 | 10 |
| Afghanistan | 9 | 0 |
| Guyana | 7 | 16 |
| Burma | 7 | 10 |
| Guatemala | 7 | 27 |
| Peru | 7 | 7 |
| Uganda | 7 | 5 |
| Sierra Leone | 6 | 28 |
| Honduras | 5 | 9 |
| Austria | 5 | 3 |
| Malta | 5 | 2 |
| Australia | 5 | 5 |
| Chile | 5 | 7 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 3 |
| South Africa | 5 | 2 |
| East Caribbean States | 5 | 13 |
| Sweden | 4 | 8 |
| Belgium | 4 | 6 |
| Mongolia | 4 | 9 |
| Liberia | 4 | 18 |
| Former Czechoslovakia | 4 | 6 |
| Panama | 3 | 14 |
| Seychelles | 3 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 2 |
| Mozambique | 3 | 3 |
| Lithuania | 2 | — |
| Armenia | 2 | — |
| Nicaragua | 2 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 3 |
| Colombia | 2 | 0 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 13 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 7 |
| Norway | 2 | 4 |
| Singapore | 1 | 3 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 2 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 4 |
| Iceland | 1 | 3 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 2 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 0 |
| Togo (Embassy closed 30 September 1991) | 0 | 8 |
| Somalia (Embassy closed 2 January 1992) | 0 | 5 |
| Bolivia | 0 | 9 |
| Swaziland | 0 | 1 |
| Ecuador | 0 | 1 |
| Dominica | 0 | 1 |
| Benin | 0 | 1 |
| Argentina | 0 | 1 |
| Slovenia | 0 | — |
| Latvia | 0 | — |
| Ukraine | 0 | — |
| Grenada | 0 | 0 |
| Namibia | 0 | — |
| Croatia | 0 | — |
| Tonga | 0 | 0 |
| Estonia | 0 | — |
| Belize | 0 | 0 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | 0 |
International organisations
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| Commonwealth Secretariat | 28 | 26 |
| EBRD | 8 | — |
| INMARSAT | 7 | 3 |
| African Development Bank | 5 | — |
Diplomatic mission
| 1992
| 1991
|
| Coffee | 2 | 2 |
| WEU | 1 | 0 |
| IMO | 1 | 1 |
| EC | 1 | 2 |
| United Nations | 0 | 0 |
| Sugar | 0 | 0 |
| Cocoa | 0 | — |
| 4,166 | 4,575 |