As my hon. Friend knows, I joined him in writing to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to ask for a meeting. Friend mentions schools being driven into deficit. My right hon.
Friend is right.
In addition, we know about Warminster Kingdown school, which like St. John's also has a deficit budget. Schools across Wiltshire are being forced to set deficit budgets or lay off staff. Some schools in the neighbouring authority of Swindon have been working a four-day week. We are determined that that will not happen in Wiltshire. Deficit budgets mean dramatic increases in class sizes, which sharply reduce the quality of education and increase teacher stress and the number of difficult or impossible pupils.