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He said that while there had been increases in shoplifting and pickpocketing, there were reductions across the main categories of police-recorded crime, including in particular a 9% fall in knife crime and a 5% fall in gun crime.
The CML said that for some months there had been increases in LTVs, and that in May the average first-time buyer LTV rose to 83%, up from 81% in April and the highest ratio since November 2008.
Announcing the move, President Chavez noted that there had been increases every year since he came to power in 1999.
Rochdale Labour MP Simon Danczuk asked him: "Why would you oppose giving the poorest paid workers a living wage and yet increase your own salary by 60% and give a load of cash to the chief officers?" Mr Hodge said there had been increases for lower paid staff.
Although there had been increases in production throughout the first three years of the war, the minister's efforts truly bore fruit in 1943, in which Canada had the fourth-highest industrial production among the Allies, trailing only the US, USSR, and Britain.
