A large number of constituents have contacted me regarding the current process around Britain leaving the European Union.

With the referendum result being won by the majority who voted to leave the EU, and with 492 out of 650 MPs voting to trigger Article 50 earlier this year, we are now in to the mechanics of leaving the EU and negotiating a new relationship with our EU partners and other countries across the world

At the start of the summer, I set out to visit much of the two hundred square miles of the constituency on my bike.

Last Friday, I walked down the road from my constituency office to the Bexhill Hive - Bexhill's new hub for creative learning and development for young people and adults. I last visited when it was a building site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Being returned as your MP meant I immediately returned to Parliament on the Monday after the General Election. It is nice to see some new faces in Westminster but sad not to see those more familiar, such as my colleague from Eastbourne, Caroline Ansell, one of the nicest people in politics.

The portcullis came down on Parliament this week and we now head off for the General Election.