Continuous at Sea Deterrent provides the ultimate protection. And that is why we are spending around £31 billion to bring in the next generation of dreadnought submarines and upgrade or deterrent. In a more contested world we need to bring the same world of deterrence to our conventional forces so modernisation a critical priority. Taking the long Term Compatibility decisions, the need to transform our armed forces into a formidable deterrent, enabling them to maintain the uk strategic advantage, empowering them to be able to deliver the outcomes we need in multiple theatres at once. The growing success of that growth was powerfully shown last week when in less than 2a hours, the united kingdom was able to both take action to defend ourselves against