To ask the Solicitor-General in how many cases prosecutions have not been proceeded with due to the claiming of diplomatic immunity by the potential defendant in the last five years, broken down by (a) country and (b) offences; and if he will make a statement. (97573)

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds no central record of the number of prosecutions which did not proceed owing to a claim of diplomatic immunity. The information is held on individual case files, and could be recovered only by examining every relevant file in each CPS office. This information can, therefore, be obtained only at disproportionate cost.