On Friday 11th August 2017, 60 local teens taking part in the National Citizen Service (NCS) youth empowerment programme were visited by Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle.
I have been fortunate enough to have enjoyed a week’s work experience in my local MPs office. I am currently studying for a law degree and hope to have a career in the civil service and so wrote to Huw to asking if it were possible to spend some time in the constituency office.
During the summer recess, I'm aiming to cover much of the 200 square miles of constituency on my bike. This would be a leisurely exercise were we to be living in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
Local MPs, Huw Merriman and Amber Rudd, have backed proposals for more local rail services in their response to the GTR timetable consultation for 2018.
Huw Merriman, the Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle has today welcomed news that more than £11,715,376 million of National Lottery money has been invested in Bexhill and Battle’s heritage projects since 1994.
Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle, has welcomed the additional £1.3 billion a year extra funding for schools and praised parents and teachers across the constituency for helping him press the Government to do more.
This week we received the news that the Government is to pump an additional £1.3bl in to our schools. As I have written many times before, I appreciate that School Funding is at record levels but the costs which schools are bearing has outstripped the increases.
Bexhill MP, Huw Merriman, visited the site of the North Bexhill Access Road and Bexhill Enterprise Park recently week to see first-hand the progress that has been made in linking north Bexhill to the new employment and housing space for the community. Huw was given a tour of the site by John Sha
This week, I did my best to ensure that the needs of our local road and rail network were brought to Parliament and aired before the Road and Rail Ministers respectively.
On Wednesday 5 July, I lead a Westminster Hall Debate on Road Infrastructure following the announcement from the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling that £1bl of extra funding would be given to local roads. You can view my speech in the video above.
