How effective will the push be to eliminate rough sleeping?

The greatest uncertainty is over how many will be willing to accept the offer of accommodation.

James Palmer: My plan to offer £100,000 homes in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

The discount will be passed on to future buyers, helping more people onto the property ladder.

Budget 2) John Glen: The challenges we face of the virus and of weak productivity can’t be met by the repetition of small state mantras

The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.

Anne Crampton: In Hart, spending by the Lib Dems is out of control

More staff are being recruited in the town hall. We would give priority to free parking to boost our high streets.

Robert Halfon: The Budget we need today is for social as well as physical infrastructure

Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.

James Blagden: How to level up – and get growth going across the whole of the country

We can’t continue to favour projects such as Crossrail over developing infrastructure in other parts of the country which generate much greater relative returns.

Rob Cooper: MPs must act to defuse the mortgage mis-selling time bomb

Sooner rather than later, they will find a growing number of constituents coming to them for help with this latest twist in the housing crisis.

A welcome fall in rough sleeping – but more accommodation is not enough for further progress

Many are vulnerable people in need of specialist help. Far better use could be made of the existing Public Health budget.

Robert Halfon: Let licence fee payers vote for the BBC’s next Director-General.

Plus: More Ronseal, please. And: If the Treasury wants to flick multiple V-signs at blue collar voters, it will put up fuel duty.

Andy Street: My West Midlands shopping list for the Chancellor’s first Budget

We must level-up the country. By providing the funds we need, the Government will send a vote of confidence in the power of local decision-making.

Philip Booth: The planning system can be liberalised in a conservative way

Allowing developers to negotiate at a very local level to provide compensation directly to the community would factor in beauty, practicality and social costs.

Neil O’Brien: How the Conservatives can do better with younger voters. And remain a compassionate party.

After crushing Labour last year, it might be tempting to rest on our laurels. But we need to act now to keep the extreme left locked out of Number 10.

Interview. Bailey commits to reopening all 38 police stations that have closed under Khan.

“So there’s no doubt, we are the underdog. But the point is, the Mayor’s record is so terrible it’s allowed us an opportunity.”

WATCH: Street demands more transport investment for West Midlands and help developing brownfield sites

“We want the same sort of connectivity that you enjoy in London. Let’s get on and invest in our Metro.”

Reshuffle 2) Iain Dale: It’s a scandal that Housing is now on its tenth Minister in ten years.

Chris Pincher, the new appointee, must stay in the post for the rest of this Parliament. It’s the only way that a strategy can be implemented properly.