Yesterday, it was an honour to welcome Defence Secretary Grant Shapps to DE&S Abbey Wood, where we met with excellent apprentices, Alice Bennet, Ryan Mills, Jason Venning and others. We saw a very impressive display which included leading edge drone technology and stands from local defence manufacturers such as MBDA UK , all of which are not only helping to protect our own defence capability and national security but are also making a vital contribution to help our Ukrainian friends to expel the Russians out of their country. The secretary of State and I also discussed our country's increasing contribution to the Ukrainian war effort and record defence spending here and his pledge to increase it even more. Thank you to all at DE&S for all the fantastic work you do!