Motoring Offences (Diplomatic Immunity)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 March 1964.

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Photo of Mr Michael Hutchison Mr Michael Hutchison , Edinburgh South 12:00, 18 March 1964

Does my hon. Friend realise that there are 6,000 people in the United Kingdom who can claim diplomatic immunity and that in London the policy seems to be to waive charges for traffic offences committed by these people? Does not my hon. Friend agree that this would be a bad policy for Scotland and that diplomatic immunity should be confined only to ambassadors and high commissioners and their immediate staffs and not to general hangers-on and bottle-washers?