The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Boris Johnson)
In 2015, 4,858 parking fines incurred by diplomatic missions and international organisations in London were brought to our attention by local councils, Transport for London and the City of London. These totalled £477,499.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has held meetings with a number of missions about outstanding parking fine debt. In addition, in May this year we wrote to diplomatic missions and international organisations concerned giving them the opportunity to either pay their outstanding fines or appeal against them if they considered that the fines had been issued incorrectly.
Subsequent payments (including amounts waived by the above authorities) totalled £161,328. There remains a total of £316,171 in unpaid fines for 2015.
The table below details those diplomatic missions and international organisations that have outstanding fines from 2015 totalling £1,000 or more, as of 21 June 2016.
Diplomatic mission/international organisation | Amount of Outstanding Fines (excluding congestion charge) |
Embassy of the Republic of South Sudan | £53,708 |
High Commission for the Federal Republic of Nigeria | £41,531 |
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia | £20,692 |
High Commission for the Republic of Zambia | £18,212 |
Embassy of the Republic of Liberia | £13,795 |
Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan | £13,429 |
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan | £11,885 |
Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan | £10,950 |
Embassy of the United Arab Emirates | £8,425 |
Embassy of the Republic of Côte d’lvoire | £7,421 |
Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea | £7,305 |
High Commission for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan | £6,292 |
Embassy of Tunisia | £6,020 |
Embassy of the Republic of Angola | £5,775 |
Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman | £5,415 |
Embassy of Georgia | £4,871 |
Malaysian High Commission | £3,705 |
Embassy of France | £3,669 |
Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | £3,352 |
Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan | £3,255 |
Sierra Leone High Commission | £3,091 |
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria | £2,935 |
High Commission of the United Republic of Tanzania | £2,460 |
Embassy of Libya | £2,457 |
Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria | £2,095 |
Embassy of the State of Qatar | £2,065 |
High Commission of the Republic of South Africa | £2,062 |
Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | £1,965 |
Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco | £1,944 |
Embassy of the Republic of Iraq | £1,929 |
Embassy of the Republic of Yemen | £1,920 |
Embassy of the Gabonese Republic | £1,910 |
Embassy of the Russian Federation | £1,887 |
Embassy of Brazil | £1,827 |
Kenya High Commission | £1,822 |
Embassy of the People's Republic of China | £1,490 |
Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam | £1,255 |
Embassy of Greece | £1,250 |
Commonwealth Secretariat | £1,235 |
Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt | £1,150 |
Figures for previous years are available in the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs’ written statement to the House on 16 July 2015, Official Report, column 42WS (HCWS131).
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