Dr Phillip Lee, Conservative Phillip lives with his wife and daughter in Berkshire. He was born and educated locally before going on to study at London and Oxford universities.

After qualifying as a doctor, he worked at several locations across the area, including Heatherwood Hospital and Finchampstead surgery. In Parliament over the last five years he has been at the forefront of questioning UK energy companies’ price hikes as a member of the Energy Select Committee. He has also campaigned for healthcare services to be restructured after warning that the NHS could not meet future demand. Of an independent mind, Phillip did not support HS2, military action in Syria nor proposals for House of Lords reform. A hard-working constituency MP, he has issued annual reports, monthly newsletters and held regular public meetings. He is seen by the press as a thoughtful and insightful MP, with a number of articles being published in national newspapers.

“What is the most pressing issue in Bracknell and how would you tackle it?” Bracknell needs to remain a place where people want to live and companies want to do business. That means ensuring all our towns and villages enjoy first class connectivity, whether by road, rail, mobile phone or broadband. It means having state-of-the-art healthcare, building on the opening of the Bracknell Urgent Care Centre. And it means having a town centre that acts as a hub, not just for the constituency, but one that people want to visit from the wider area.

For me, this means building on the work that I and the Conservative-run council have undertaken over the last five years to protect those all-important improvements during the depth of the recession. We have come through the worst, now is the time to make Bracknell the place to be as the economy recovers and people start to feel the benefit.

James Walsh, Labour James Walsh is a communications manager and a former Slough councillor, where he was a member of the Cabinet responsible for health and adult social services.

He lived in Bracknell in 2002 and 2003 and is honoured to be back campaigning to represent local people as their Labour Parliamentary candidate.

He believes that he can use his experience as a councillor and someone with a life outside of politics to be the representative in Parliament the town and its neighbouring villages need. If elected, he will not have second or third jobs and will work with residents, employers, schools, councillors and other key stakeholders to make sure that Bracknell people get the support and services they deserve – from more money for our schools to improved transport links to London and beyond.

He will be an accessible MP and will hold weekly, one-to-one confidential surgeries to anyone who needs his help.

“What is the most pressing issue in Bracknell and how would you tackle it?” One of the most pressing problems in Bracknell is the lack of affordable housing in the town, which is seeing family and friends broken up as they are forced to move away and young people unable to begin their lives away from the parental home.

The average cost of a house in Bracknell is more than £300,000, with rents averaging £950 per month (with housing benefit covering £50-£100 less than that). What hope has anyone on an average salary of building a life in either rented or bought property here?

As your MP, I will start tackling this by backing Labour’s plan to increase the number of new houses by 200,000 homes nationally per year by 2020. I will also work to secure a fair deal for renters with longer, more predictable tenancies - and a ban on the rip-off letting agent fees that add cost where none is needed.

Patrick Smith, Liberal Democrat Patrick Smith is a local resident, living with his family in heart of Bracknell. He grew up just down the road in Reading, so has spent most of his life in the area. He works nearby as an engineer for a small local business.

He is in politics because he wants to make a difference for people, making sure that our society is run fairly and responsibly to create opportunity for everyone.

In government the Lib Ds have reduced taxes for millions of low to middle income earners at the same time as raising investment in business, education and healthcare, protecting our environment, and rescuing our economy from the brink of collapse.

“What is the most pressing issue in Bracknell and how would you tackle it?” For me the biggest local issue going into this election is education funding. Bracknell schools are among the worst funded in the UK.

One of the principle causes of this is a failure to get Pupil Premium funding into Bracknell schools because of a low take-up rate for Free School Meals (FSM) - Pupil Premium is directly connected to FSM pupils.

Bracknell has the highest proportion of eligible pupils not claiming FSM in the entire country. We believe Bracknell schools could currently be missing out on over £1m in Pupil Premium funding as a result.

I’ve raised this issue with Liberal Democrat Schools Minister, David Laws, who has assured me he aims to tackle this issue within the next Parliament.

Bracknell Liberal Democrats are lobbying to increase uptake by allow parents to apply for FSM directly from the council, rather than their children’s schools (which can put eligible families off claiming FSM).

Richard Thomas, UKIP Richard has lived and worked in Bracknell constituency since attending Harmans Water and Brakenhale Schools.

He was a member of Bracknell Forest Council for 16 years. Initially a Conservative, he left the Conservative Party out of principle - he opposed the allowances paid to councillors, drawing a third of the agreed amount himself.

He has been a non-executive director (audit committee chairman) of Wokingham Primary Care Trust.

He was previously a parliamentary candidate for the Conservatives, for Leicester West constituency in the 1997 General Election. Richard, who has a Masters Degree in Economics, has over 20 years experience in the pharmacy and pharmaceutical distribution industry. He currently runs a medium-sized chain of pharmacies.

Richard is a keen runner in Swinley Forest, and an indoor rower. He has competed at the British Indoor Rowing Championships, and was 36th at the 2012 European Championships.

He is married and lives in Crowthorne with his wife and cats.

“What is the most pressing issue in Bracknell and how would you tackle it?” The most pressing issue (among so many) in Bracknell is healthcare provision. Too many people wait too long to get GP appointments.

More people then wait too long to get secondary care tests carried out for vital issues such as cancer screening. Mental health is also a seriously neglected area of health.

The NHS is clearly underfunded. The solution to the problem is not to move our hospital to Maidenhead, or to close local pharmacies as the Conservatives locally want.

The solution is to properly fund the NHS with an additional £21.9 billion over the next five years.

This will pay for more GPs, faster access to screening and better chronic care.

It will allow NHS managers to focus on improving services, rather than trying to save small sums within very tight budgets.

Finally, it will allow us to abolish prescription charges, which have been called a ‘tax on sickness’.

Derek Florey, Green Party Derek Florey. and his family have lived in Bracknell for 30 years . He has worked at South Hill Park Arts Centre teaching drama at schools around Bracknell and the wider Berkshire area and has also been involved in many education and outreach programmes. He currently volunteers as a steward at South Hill Park and produces and directs his own plays.

He joined the Greens because their core principles emphasise the need for equality and fairness across the board, while also recognising the limits of a finite planet, and that not everything valuable can be measured by GDP. Having grown up disabled, he understands the importance of giving people equal opportunity to access services. It has made him very determined that no-one should be dismissed or left behind in society.

“What is the most pressing issue in Bracknell and how would you tackle it?” Focusing on the most pressing issue can lead to very short-term policy-making! Greens look at the long-term sustainability of society, alongside issues like increasing wealth inequality. Climate change is a huge challenge to humanity, and the choices we make now will have repercussions for decades to come. Along with the essential expansion of renewable energies and home insulation, we also need to curb consumption. That definitely includes air travel.

A change in flight paths from Heathrow has caused considerable disturbance to residents in Bracknell recently, and looks set to continue. It helps makes the case that the proposed 3rd runway at Heathrow would be terrible news for the surrounding areas, and I would definitely oppose it. But ANY airport expansion is bad from a carbon emissions point of view. We cannot keep expanding this fossil-fuel hungry industry, and we should stop exempting jet-fuel from taxation.