BEFORE the election, during and after the result, I have consistently campaigned and spoken for fairer funding for Sussex schools and pupils and for greater funding for West Sussex schools and pupils.

Teachers came with MPs to make those points to ministers.

I was one of those MPs and I said the same when pupils, parents, heads and governors handed in the petition at Downing Street.

I say the same now.

I made those points in public in the Assembly Hall after the election result and I had spoken about them at the meeting with other candidates on the previous Sunday.

I talked about them when openly meeting people at my High Salvington meeting two days before the voting on Thursday.

I am and I will be committed to doing everything possible to gain fairer funding and more funding locally.

This is in addition to being aware how West Sussex County Council helped headteachers achieve the generally successful and beneficial transition from first and middle schools system to primary schools, removing one school change for children.

I also give thanks for the additional secondary places for students in and around Worthing.

Without publicity, Tim Loughton MP and I were active in remedying the problems facing Northbrook College and Worthing College when neither was initially included on the register of Approved Training Providers.