Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 69421

Diplomatic Immunity

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Zarah Sultana

Your PartyCoventry South

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many foreign officials have been granted special mission immunity to visit the UK since March 2024; and what the (a) names and (b) country of origin are of those official

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The purpose of special missions is a 'temporary mission, representing a state, which is sent by one state to another with the consent of the latter, in order to carry out official engagements on behalf of the sending state'. All visitors granted a special...

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