Housing affordability
But the blueprint - unveiled against a backdrop of mounting calls for action following a flurry of killings in London - was overshadowed by a fresh row over police officer numbers, with Labour accusing the Tories of "creating the conditions for crime to thrive".
Claims the policy was being used disproportionately against young black men led Theresa May to introduce reforms in 2014 in a bid to ensure stop and search was used in a more targeted way.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the rise in these violent incidents was "unacceptably high", and they were "a national problem that required national solutions from the government".
Commenting on the findings, ONS statistician Alexa Bradley said: "Today's figures show that, for most types of offence, the picture of crime has been fairly stable, with levels much lower than the peak seen in the mid-1990s".
But officers have expressed concern about the policy which some claim leaves them fearful of being accused of being racist.
The data revealed that in 2017, full-time workers, on average, could expect to pay approximately 7.8 times their yearly workplace-based earnings when purchasing a home in England and Wales. There were a total of 3,590 offences recorded. Of these, only Cumbria saw a significant decrease of 6.4 percent. There were also 74,130 robberies during the year, a 33 percent increase.
Lok Sabha bypolls to be litmus test for BJP
In 2017, the cumulative vote count of the SP, BSP and Congress in the five assembly seats stood at 4.98 lakh. Nana Patole of the BJP had resigned from the Bhandara-Gondiya seat previous year and joined the Congress.
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Global Markets: Asia stocks supported by Wall Street, but China drags
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.15 percent, as weaker Chinese stocks weighed on the market . Should it climb above 3.041 percent, its peak in January 2014, it will likely move into territory last seen in summer 2011.
Detective Superintendent Jeremy Carter said the force has recently appointed a specialist sexual offences lawyer to give staff additional training to conduct thorough investigations and maximise prosecution opportunities.
The number of killings in London has increased by 44 per cent in the past year - with more than 150 victims, new statistics reveal.
The Office for National Statistics said: "The past three years have seen a rise in the number of recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, following a general downward trend in this series since the year ending March 2011".
There were 16 recorded murders in West Mercia and 10,518 instances of offences of violence with injury.
The number of rape cases increased by almost 20% to 7,707 offences, while the number of sex attacks rose by 11% to 19,854 offences.
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