asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has of the total spending by London borough councils in each of the past five years on (a) police monitoring units (b) women's support units, (c) ethnic minority policies and (d) gay and lesbian policy initiatives.

[pursuant to his reply, 5 February 1987]: I regret that published local authority accounts are not kept in such a way that precise totals under these headings can be identified.