Professor Veronica Campbell:

I agree with the comments made by my colleagues. Coming back to the transport issue, we have done a lot of work with local transport providers in the south east as well and that has been very fruitful in opening up new transport routes, which has helped our students, and also the timetabling in terms of more convenient arrival times to campus, etc. We have done a lot of that and that has certainly eased things for certain students who are travelling shorter distances but it does not alleviate the overall issue around student accommodation, which we are here to discuss.

We still have significant pressure points in this regard, but we are very much engaging with local transport providers.