Dear Resident,
What a month May has been! 🗳️ We've had the local elections at the beginning of the month, which resulted in a new administration at the East Sussex County Council. You can find the elected Councillor for your area 👉🏽 here.
These representatives will be now be responsible for local decisions, so please do get in touch with them if you need any support. At County level, they will be responsible for: Education; Adult Social Care; Children's Services; Public Health; Transport planning and Roads Maintenance; Waste disposal (recycling sites); Community services such as libraries and registrars.
The following responsibilities sit with your existing Wealden District Councillors: Planning and Building Control; Council Tax, Council Tax Benefit and Business Rates; Leisure Services; Business and Tourism Support; Housing and Housing Benefit; Waste Collection and Recycling; and Car Parking.
🇬🇧 Parliament resumed with The King's Speech and the State Opening of Parliament on 13th May, where the Government set out their programme of legislation. I was incredibly proud that Sussex Weald had two representatives at The King's Speech this time. As Chairman of Ways and Means, I was in attendance alongside His Majesty The King’s pageboy who is a local resident.
A copy of The King's Speech listing the proposed Bills is available here👉🏽 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-kings-speech-2026
At the beginning of each Parliamentary session, Backbench MPs have the opportunity to put forward their name for a Private Members' Bill Ballot, which I had the privilege of drawing as the most senior Deputy Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means.
The Private Members’ Bill ballot is a fantastic opportunity for MPs to bring forward new legislation and raise awareness of issues of importance to them and their constituents. Congratulations to Sir Desmond Swayne, New Forest West (Conservative), whose ball number 499 was drawn in the first place, and has the first choice of a Private Members' Bill Friday to debate his Bill.
There's been a lot going on at home in every corner of Sussex Weald, and I've been pleased to support so many fantastic local businesses, charities, organisations, schools and healthcare providers.
👇🏽 Please click on each image or highlighted text below to read more about what I've been up to👇🏽
🏥 Championing Crowborough's Horder Centre 🏥
🥊 Opening a new home for Hailsham Boxing Club 🥊
🚤 Launching a new fully accessible boat with Mariners of Bewl 🚤
💦 Welcoming the opening of a new water refill station in Hailsham 💦
👏🏽 Celebrating top results & success of Heathfield Community College 👏🏽
👶🏻 Campaigning to reopen our Crowborough Birthing Centre 👶🏼
🤝🏽 Supporting Wadhurst's The Mount Camphill Community 🤝🏽
🎓 Catching up with Year 2 pupils at Cross In Hand Primary School 🎓
💡 Promoting Crowborough Drop-In centre of Clued-Up charity 💡
🚧 Working with Hellingly Parish Council to secure road upgrades 🚧
🏆 Celebrating Rushlake Green winners of Rural Oscars 2026 🏆
✨ Meeting with Mayfield & Wadhurst supporters of Dark Sky ✨
✍🏽 Have a say on local campaigns - my petitions & surveys ✍🏽
💧 South East Water survey 💧
Following many disruptions to supply locally, let me know whether you were impacted; whether SEW did their job and communicated with you; and whether you think you are owed compensation.
Share your views 👉🏽 HERE 👈🏽
❌ No to asylum seeker housing at Crowborough Training Camp ❌
8,700 signatures and counting! The site has already been rejected as being wholly inappropriate. I continue to do everything I can to challenge the Home Office.
Sign my petition 👉🏽 HERE 👈🏽
👶🏻 The fight to save the Crowborugh Birthing Centre continues! 👶🏻
We have 3,800 signatures, but we need more data to put even more pressure on the NHS Trust. Mums deserve a choice!
Sign my petition 👉🏽 HERE 👈🏽
💷 Access to banking services 💷
My survey is still open! Are local banking services working for you? Let me know via a short survey on my website, so I can be better informed when campaigning for additional facilities such as those secured for 📍Hailsham.
Share your views 👉🏽 HERE 👈🏽
☎️ Contact ☎️
Please note that this is a regular update on my activities in Sussex Weald and in Parliament, and any correspondence received in direct reply to this email will not be responded to.
📞 Casework is undertaken daily and surgery appointments continue taking place in person, over the phone, or virtually. If you need my assistance regarding a particular issue, please email me at [email protected] and provide as much information as possible about your query.
Yours sincerely,
Nusrat