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.

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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.

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.

Officer	Role	Party
Theo Clarke	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Rosie Duffield	Co-Chair	Independent
Mr Robert Goodwill	Officer	Conservative
Huw Merriman	Officer	Conservative
Katherine Fletcher	Officer	Conservative
Damian Green	Officer	Conservative
Lord Taylor of Holbeach	Officer	Conservative
Valerie Vaz	Officer	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Anne McLaughlin	Chair & Registered Contact	Scottish National Party
Gavin Newlands	Co-Chair	Scottish National Party
Dr Philippa Whitford	Vice Chair	Scottish National Party
Alan Brown	Vice Chair	Scottish National Party
Margaret Ferrier	Vice Chair	Independent
Patricia Gibson	Vice Chair	Scottish National Party
Huw Merriman	Vice Chair	Conservative
Bambos Charalambous	Vice Chair	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Florence Eshalomi	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour (Co-op)
Taiwo Owatemi	Co-Chair	Labour
Huw Merriman	Vice Chair	Conservative
Vicky Foxcroft	Vice Chair	Labour
Kate Osamor	Vice Chair	Labour (Co-op)
Lord Paddick	Vice Chair	Liberal Democrat
Felicity Buchan	Vice Chair	Conservative
Crispin Blunt	Officer	Independent
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi	Officer	Labour
Mr Marcus Fysh	Officer	Conservative
Helen Hayes	Officer	Labour
Fleur Anderson	Officer	Labour
Bell Ribeiro-Addy	Officer	Labour
Dame Meg Hillier	Officer	Labour (Co-op)
Claudia Webbe	Officer	Independent
Jason McCartney	Officer	Conservative
Jo Gideon	Officer	Conservative
Ian Byrne	Officer	Labour
Ruth Cadbury	Officer	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Thangam Debbonaire	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour
Liz Saville Roberts	Vice Chair	Plaid Cymru
Huw Merriman	Vice Chair	Conservative
Baroness Bertin	Secretary	Conservative
Gavin Newlands	Treasurer	Scottish National Party

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	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.