内容摘要：Supermarket vouchers will again be sent to eligible families in Peterborough.

Supermarket vouchers will again be sent to eligible families in Peterborough.

Around 500 of the crimes involved violence against a person.on a quarterly basis and captures incidents and crimes with a hate motivation.

A number of years ago, racially-motivated incidents overtook those linked to sectarianism.The trend continues in the latest data set.There were 967 sectarian incidents recorded – that is down 254 on the previous year.

Amnesty International has expressed concern at the figures.Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan said they should be "a wake-up call to the scale of the problem now facing us".

“For too long, those behind these attacks have felt able to act with impunity, emboldened to carry out further attacks," he said.

He said some communities were "living in fear."At the time of the committee’s report HS2 Ltd acknowledged the payments were a “serious error”.

You might have thought a megaproject costing billions would be a political priority. However, in 2017, Brexit was dominating the agenda and if an outsider had the impression that MPs were distracted when they voted through the country’s biggest infrastructure project, they’d be right.Philip Hammond told me: “I'm sorry to disappoint you, but HS2 was not the main issue of the moment. The government was teetering on the brink, trying to deal with the daily hourly pressures of the Brexit negotiation. Long-term projects were perhaps not seen as quite as immediately urgent.”

By the time of the vote, many believed the likely costs would be much more than the officially budgeted £55.7 billion. An internal government document produced just before the HS2 scheme was finally approved by Parliament in 2017 suggested the final figure could increase to more than £80 billion.Lord Hammond told us it would be unrealistic for every bit of treasury modelling to go before parliament.