Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Russian diplomats are serving with so-called diplomatic immunity in the Russian Embassy in London; and if he will make a statement.

This question was answered on 10th September 2014
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has records of 143 diplomats posted to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in London. In accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961, the Government grants immunity to diplomats posted to the Embassy of the Russian Federation according to their status.