COSTAIN GROUP PLC (COST) — Q&A session relating to the 2023 Full Year Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the COSTIN GROUP PLC Q and A session relating to the 2023 full year results. Throughout this recorded Q and A session, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and should be submitted using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to Investor Relations Director, Paul Sharma. Good morning to you. Good morning and thanks very much and welcome to the Investor Meet question and answer session. With me today, I have Alex Fawn, the CEO and Helen Willis, the CFO. Before we start, just a couple of things. You may have seen that we we do publish our consensus now on the website, and we expect that to be updated next week once we have the results from some of the analysts to come through to me. And secondly, I'd like you to go to the slide two and just note that we have a cautionary statement, and this is also on page 33 of the presentation and also on our r and s. So now I'd like to pass through to Alex Horn, who is our CEO for some introductory statements, and they'll be followed by Helen Willis, our CFO. And Alex will be covering some of the top line points from yesterday and also our preferred book and order book status, and Helen will be covering off some of the issues regarding the pension. Thank you, Alex. Thanks, Paul, and good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for taking the time to join this call, and we look forward to receiving ...