Diplomatic Missions: Unpaid Congestion Charges and Parking Fines Debate

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Diplomatic Missions: Unpaid Congestion Charges and Parking Fines

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Manufacturing: Investment Growth Forecast
Tuesday 5th July 2011

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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The noble Lord will recognise that diplomacy is a very delicate matter and that such a course of action would be extremely ill advised.

Lord Glentoran Portrait Lord Glentoran
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Will the Minister say what success the previous Government had with this problem, which has been going on for many years?

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, I would like to keep this non-partisan. All Governments put pressure on the Government of the United States and other countries. I am pleased to say that we have had some success with Kazakhstan, which has managed to regularise its overdue parking fines.

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