I am grateful for the chance to raise the subject of the deeply worrying bed blocking Crisis in Wiltshire.

We entitled it "The bed blocking Crisis in Wiltshire" advisedly.

We have heard this morning about a very real Crisis in Wiltshire.

I also speak on behalf of my hon. Friends the Members for Westbury (Mr. Faber) and for Salisbury (Mr. Key) who, with my right hon. Friend the Member for Devizes, joined me recently in an Adjournment debate in Westminster Hall on the bed blocking Crisis in Wiltshire, which, like the crisis in education funding that I shall describe, is also caused by the chronic underfunding of Wiltshire county council.

The cause of the Crisis in Wiltshire has come about because of long-term generic faults in the standard spending assessment system and specific circumstances in Wiltshire.

151 Trussell Trust providing food for people in Crisis in Wiltshire and augmenting the work of other statutory and voluntary organisations.