To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints concerning the use of racially discriminating language or behaviour by police officers were made to the Police Complaints Authority in each of the last five years; and how many were upheld.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) on 29 November 1990, at column 452, which gives the available information about such complaints. Figures for 1990 are not yet available.