After 9 years as the Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle, I have made the decision not to stand as a candidate at the next election. This means I will also leave my job as Rail Minister on 4 July.
Bexhill MP, Huw Merriman, joined the newly-appointed Chair of Bexhill Town Board, Abi Newbury, along with Jay Carroll and Nikki Collins from the Heart of Sidley for a reception at 10 Downing Street last Wednesday evening.
I know that many constituents are concerned about BT’s approach to moving all of their customers from old, analogue landlines onto digital landlines. This is an issue I have written to BT about on a number of occasions over recent months.
Last October, I received the good news that Bexhill has been chosen as one of 55 towns which will benefit from a £20 million 10-year endowment-style fund called the Long-Term Plan for Towns. This followed on from the £20m Levelling Up Fund…
A new regeneration programme for Bexhill was kick-started this week with the official launch of a board that will decide how £20 million will be invested.
When the Assisted Dying Bill was defeated in the House of Commons back in 2015, I sensed that it was not the last we would hear of it. Correspondence from constituents since that time, suggests this was correct.
During the Easter break, I took the opportunity to visit the amazing team at Little Gate Farm in Beckley and find out more about their latest training programmes which support young people and adults with learning disabilities and/or…
Easter recess was a great opportunity to get stuck into the constituency and the railway. For the latter, I found myself in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, the Cotswolds, Wales and Crowhurst. It’s always good to visit communities who have their own…
Huw Merriman, MP for the Bexhill and Battle constituency, recently visited Salehurst CE Primary School in Robertsbridge to talk to pupils about their visit to Parliament at the end of last year and to answer their questions about the role…
With Parliament being in Easter recess, and in between work across the railway, I am continuing my ‘Meet Your MP’ events. This week, I was in Catsfield. The Parish Council notifies residents in advance. I then leaflet on the morning (in…
A record number of people visited the 2024 Bexhill Jobs & Apprenticeships Fair on Friday 15 March. Almost 700 visitors came through the doors of the De La Warr Pavilion to explore live job vacancies, apprenticeships, placements, courses,…
Huw Merriman, MP for the Bexhill and Battle constituency, welcomed today’s announcement of a number of projects in Bexhill and Rother which will benefit from £20 million worth of Levelling Up Partnership government funding and support.
Last Friday, I spent my day at the 8th Bexhill Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair. This is an event which I have been proudly involved in since 2016. The aim of the first Jobs Fair was to put Bexhill on the map as town ready for growth. We knew…
At a recent meeting in Bexhill, local MPs Sally-Ann Hart and Huw Merriman, pressed the Chief Executive of Southern Water and the Area Director for the Environment Agency to take further action to clean up local bathing waters, provide…
Huw Merriman, MP for the Bexhill and Battle constituency, has welcomed the Government’s major package of reforms to support businesses to deliver more apprenticeship places, benefitting local small businesses and young people.
Bexhill MP, Huw Merriman, visited Sidley Family Hub last Friday to find out about the wide range of services which are provided to support families, young people and children across Rother by East Sussex County Council and the NHS.
Bexhill MP, Huw Merriman, joined Heather Winchester, CEO of Dragonflies Community Nursery in Sidley and the Bexhill Family Collective CIC for a visit to the nursery school and the new Community Garden they are creating in Sidley.
Bexhill MP, Huw Merriman, spoke to Bexhill College students about the wide range of career and training opportunities which will be on offer at the Bexhill Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair this Friday 15 March.
Next Friday, 15 March, the De La Warr Pavilion will be hosting the 8th annual Bexhill Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair. Each year, the Jobs Fair keeps getting bigger and better and I am incredibly proud to be actively involved in the…
The disused former station master’s house at Battle, East Sussex, has been turned into a community hub. The magnificent listed building, adjacent to the station ticket office, has been unused for many years, and had started to fall into…
Last Friday, I spent the morning delivering a survey to businesses in Bexhill town centre with members of my team. With the recent levelling up funding opportunities which have been announced for Bexhill and Rother, including a £20million…
Huw has welcomed the Government’s new long-term ‘Stop! Think Fraud’ campaign, delivering tough new anti-fraud messaging, raising public awareness on fraud safety advice in partnership with law enforcement, tech, banking, telecoms and third…
Last Friday, Huw Merriman, the MP for the Bexhill and Battle constituency visited St Peter and St Paul CE Primary School in Bexhill to meet the School Council and have a tour of some of the school’s new facilities.
It was a pleasure to be in Pevensey Bay a fortnight ago for the first of a series of public meetings I am holding in the parishes and towns that make up the 200 square miles of the constituency.
Last Friday, Huw Merriman, MP for the Bexhill and Battle constituency, organised a meeting for constituents, which was attended by over 200 people, about the proposal from the Home Office to open asylum seeker accommodation at the Northeye…