Financial key points
- Sales increased by £0.2bn to £8.7bn mainly due to exchange translation
- Underlying EBITA increased by 6% to £849m, or 3% on a constant currency basis
- Underlying earnings per share increased by 2% to 17.4p
- Large order backlog of £36.3bn
- Interim dividend increased by 2% to 8.6p per share
- Net debt of £2.0bn on utilisation of customer advances
- Group's share of the pre-tax accounting net pension deficit increased by £1.6bn to £6.1bn
