Huw Merriman
Conservative
Bexhill and Battle
M
Huw Merriman is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, and left the Commons on 30 May 2024.
Pay & earnings · 2026
MP base salary
£0
/ £93,904 annual
0 days served — year-to-date
· annual rate £93,904
Declared outside earnings
£0
0 registered interests published in 2026
Total (salary + chair + declared)
£0
Base salary: House of Commons Library SN02644 / IPSA. Earnings from Register of Interests (API), published during 2026.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
258
239 meetings ·
14 hospitality ·
1 gift ·
4 overseas trips
· 2022-10-01 → 2024-06-30
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 239
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-18 | Avanti West Coast and Network Rail | To discuss route performance | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-21 | East West Railway | To discuss the CS1 Chiltern Update | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-20 | RMT | To discuss the negotiation process of upcoming strikes | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-20 | East West Railway | To discuss East West Rail | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-13 | ASLEF | To discuss working practices for train drivers | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-08 | Rail Delivery Group, TFL, WM Trains, C2C Rail, Chiltern Railways, Southeastern Railway, GT Railway, Greater Anglia | To discuss Project Oval and the roadmap to Phase 1 delivery | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-07 | Devereaux Chambers | To discuss WFR | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-07 | National Audit Office (NAO) | Meeting with Gareth Davies and Jonny Mood from NAO | department-for-transport |
| 2024-05-01 | Transport for London (TFL) | To discuss Project Oval | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-30 | Fiona Hyslop MSP | To discuss her transport priorities | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-24 | Govia Thameslink Railway, WM Trains, C2 Rail, Chiltern Railways, Southeastern Railway, Southwestern Railway, Rail Delivery Group | To discuss the updates on Project Oval | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-22 | HS1 | To discuss progress on HS1 | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-17 | Transport for the North | To discuss the East Coast Mainline timetable | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-16 | HS2 | To discuss HS2 design | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-16 | Grand Central Rail, East Midlands Railway, LNER, TP Express, GT Railway, Cross Country Trains, Network Rail, Transport for the North, Hull Trains, Northern Railway, | East Coast Main Line update meeting with the industry | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-15 | Transport for the North | To disucss the East Coast Main Line (ECML) | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-15 | Hitachi | To discuss trackside guardian safety system | department-for-transport |
| 2024-04-09 | Mayor Brabin | To discuss Leeds safeguarding strategy | department-for-transport |
| 2024-03-25 | Community Rail Network | To discuss Community Rail’s work in collaboration with DfT and community-led station building projects. | department-for-transport |
| 2024-03-25 | NPR Leaders Roundtable | A meeting with Northern Leaders to discuss the Northern Powerhouse rail announcement. | department-for-transport |
Recent hospitality
| Date | Host | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-26 | Great Western Railway | Dinner | — |
| 2024-03-20 | First Group | Dinner | — |
| 2024-03-19 | Lendlease | Dinner | — |
| 2023-12-17 | — | Tickets to Football Match - Director's Box | — |
| 2023-09-12 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-09-06 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-08-06 | — | Free tickets to Community Shield | — |
| 2023-06-29 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-06-14 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-06-08 | — | Drinks reception | — |
| 2023-05-15 | — | Drinks reception | — |
| 2023-05-10 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2023-05-09 | — | Dinner | — |
| 2022-12-07 | — | Drinks and Refreshments | — |
Recent gifts
| Date | Gift | From / To | Outcome | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-16 | Manchester City jersey signed by men's team | Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | Held by department | £1,000 |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| — |
Colombia
Scheduled flight
|
Meetings on Rail & Rail Infrastructure projects in Colombia | — |
| — |
Gdansk, Poland
Scheduled flight
|
TRAKO Event | — |
| — |
Prague, Czechia
Scheduled flight
|
Signing of MOU | — |
| — |
UAE
Scheduled flight
|
Middle East Rail Conference | — |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Constituencies represented
2015-05-07 → 2024-05-30
Bexhill and Battle
Party history
2015-05-07 → 2024-05-30
Conservative
Government posts
2022-10-27 → 2024-07-05
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2020-01-29 → 2022-10-28
Transport Committee
Chair
+£15,928/yr
2017-09-11 → 2019-11-06
Transport Committee
2015-07-08 → 2017-05-03
Transport Committee
2016-11-21 → 2017-05-03
Procedure Committee
2020-05-20 → 2022-10-28
Liaison Committee (Commons)
2021-09-22 → 2022-10-28
Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government
Chair additional salary only applies to specified select committees under Standing Order 122B. Regular members receive no additional pay.
Contact
No contact details recorded.
APPGs (2026) · 4 active officership(s) · 11 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fruit, Vegetable and Horticulture
Subject Group
|
Officer | — | 8 | 2022-09-17 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Green Deal Misselling
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 8 | 2023-05-14 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime and Violence Reduction
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Barnardo's · Redthread | 19 | 2022-06-04 |
|
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | Respect | 5 | 2021-05-21 |
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the
/appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder
there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against
the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.
Commons votes · 2026
No Commons votes recorded for 2026.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the
primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
MPs who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
3 bills
3 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Protection (Double Charging) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2022-01-25 | |
| Minimum Service Obligation (High Street Cashpoints) Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2018-11-27 | |
| Automatic Travel Compensation Bill | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2017-11-21 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.