Huw Merriman MP asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was standing in for the Prime Minister during Prime Minister’s Questions, to join him in calling for businesses to relocate and expand in the Bexhill and Battle constituency in light of the opening of the link road between Bexhill and Hastings. 

Text of the exchange:

Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con): The Bexhill-Hastings link road will finally open this month, delivering a business park, new homes for a new labour market and a countryside park. The road has been talked about for decades but it has been commissioned and built in the past five. Will the Chancellor join me in welcoming new business to relocate to Bexhill and Hastings, and to expand?

Mr Osborne: I would certainly encourage businesses to relocate to my hon. Friend’s area. He is right about the link road: for decades people called for it, and although for all those years there was a Conservative MP for Bexhill, there was a Labour MP for Hastings for many of those years and nothing happened. Now that we have Conservative MPs in both Bexhill and Hastings, we are getting the investment the local area needs.

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