GRANT SHAPPS

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

Our brave servicemen and women sacrifice so much for us all - whether they're spending months away from their families and friends or putting their lives on the line for our country.

We are the workers' party. We are the party of the hard working individual.

I believe that overall if you want a growing economy what you have got to have is sufficient flexibility to allow that to happen.

When eco-towns were first announced we said that we would support environmentally-friendly development where local communities supported the home-building; where infrastructure was in place and where the growth was genuinely green.

I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.

Of course homelessness has many causes and the solutions are often frustratingly complex.

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.

While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

Our reasons for criminalising squatting are crystal clear - we want to protect the rights of regular hard-working homeowners against the damage squatters can inflict on their homes, and the distress this causes in their lives.

An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

I was so glad when geek went from being a bad word to a good word.

I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

I did not have a second job while being an MP.

We need a system where some politicians - who quite rightly respond to the public mood - are prepared to stand up in favour of housebuilding, so I came up with a system that gives local people something they really want in return for building more homes. In our case in Hatfield, it's a new town centre.

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

I absolutely believe that we're the workers' party. We are the party that has always been at the forefront of the big social changes that have promoted women and working people.

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.