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<p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has held meetings throughout the past
year with a number of diplomatic missions and international organisations about outstanding
parking fines and other debts. The subject of a mission’s outstanding debts is also
raised with all incoming Heads of Mission. In April this year FCO officials wrote
to all diplomatic missions with unpaid parking fines over £500 to give them the opportunity
to either pay the outstanding fines, or to dispute them with the creditors, before
the publication of the details to Parliament. Subsequent payments of parking fines,
including amounts waived by councils, totalled £214,154.</p>
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