Hello, and thank you for listening to our results call for the half year ending 31st of July. I'm Tom Mackay, Chief Financial Officer, and I'm pleased to report another period of strong progress across the group. Let me start on slide two with an overview of group performance. The positive momentum from last year has continued. Total holdings increased to GBP 16.7 million, maintaining our position as the U.K.'s largest driving services provider. With income per customer and renewal rates improving and a continued focus on productivity and efficiency in our operations, group revenue increased by 5%, adjusted EBITDA increased by 8%, and our net adjusted EBITDA margin improved to 40%. In terms of the balance sheet, group net debt decreased through positive cash flow generation, and with the increase in EBITDA, group leverage reduced to 3.7x. Finally, we maintained a robust liquidity position with well over GBP 200 million in available liquidity, which provides flexibility and optionality as we move through the rest of the year. Overall, a strong first half, and we remain confident in our outlook for the rest of the financial year. Moving to slide three, I wanted to outline a change we are making to our segmental reporting. From this year, we are moving to report against three business segments as shown on the slide. In line with our strategy to broaden the AA's offer beyond our core roadside and insurance businesses and reflecting the investments we're making in our driving services businesses, including mobile mechanics and accident assist, we will now report the financial performance of this segment separately. We think this provides greater clarity and transparency for investors as the business continues to grow and will provide commentary against all three segments in our reporting. Starting with our roadside business on slide four, we've continued to deliver solid, strong growth in our core roadside business, with B2C members increasing by 21,000 and B2B customers growing to 11.3 million. With improving renewal rates, which remain well above 80%, and growth in average income per member, revenue increased by 3% to GBP 477 million. We maintained excellent customer service and operational delivery with our fleet of over 2,800 patrols delivering consistent repair rates and leading call to arrive times, despite more challenging weather conditions at the start of the year and into the summer. We continue to make progress on the use of technology, with well over 50% of breakdowns now reported digitally and a growing proportion of cases being fixed remotely. This flexible operating model enabled EBITDA to grow by 3% and margin to improve by 30 basis points. Moving on to our insurance business on slide five. Growth has continued to accelerate in our insurance business, with policies in force exceeding the 2 million mark. Our new platform is now fully embedded, allowing us to offer broader and more tiered products and supporting the strong policy growth across motor and home. With retention rates improving and market premiums increasing, net revenue increased by 12% to GBP 83 million, and adjusted EBITDA increased by 14% to GBP 40 million. Our flexible model of broker and capital-light underwriter continues to serve us well, and we see further opportunities for growth in our insurance division. Turning to slide six, we are reporting performance for our driving services segment for the first time. As I mentioned previously, this segment now contains our accident assist and mobile mechanics business, as well as broader driving services such as Drivetech and financial services through our NatWest Boxed products. I am pleased to report that momentum is growing. We have continued to invest in mobile mechanics over the first half, and service maintenance and repair jobs are around 40% higher than last year. Claim volumes in accident assist have continued to grow, and we are proud of the level of service we offer our customers, as reflected in our strong Net Promoter Score of 79. We are also seeing increasing volumes on Drivetech courses and balances in loans and savings products are growing steadily since the launch of our relationship with NatWest last year. This enabled net revenue to grow by 14% and adjusted EBITDA by 25%. Slide seven shows our cash flow over the period. Our cash flow performance remains strong, and we continue to generate cash while investing in the business. EBITDA growth more than offset modest increases in customer acquisition, CapEx, and lease payments as we supported business growth. As a result, operating free cash flow before working capital increased 9% to GBP 165 million. We saw a GBP 13 million working capital outflow, driven by the timing of payments and receipts around the half year. Net interest paid increased slightly, reflecting the longer first coupon period of the A13 notes issued last November, which paid in July. After tax, pension, and other items, free cash flow was GBP 52 million. This enabled a small GBP 18 million dividend to be paid from AA Limited, noting this was funded from available group cash outside the WBS structure. Finally, moving to our debt position on Slide 8. We continue to strengthen the balance sheet with group net debt decreasing by GBP 44 million. Together with EBITDA growth, group leverage reduced from 4 x to 3.7 x, and senior leverage also improved, reducing from 5.2 x to 5.0 x. Given the progress we have made on deleveraging over the past few years and the fact we are now meeting the 4.0 x group leverage and 5.0 x senior leverage guidance we communicated a year ago, I thought I would clarify our intentions with respect to future distributions. We intend to maintain a balanced and disciplined approach to managing our balance sheet and will look to make appropriate distributions after consideration of our business and cash requirement plans, while still targeting group leverage at or below 4.0 x and senior leverage at or below 5.0 x. Finally, we have continued to optimize our financing, successfully refinancing the A11 notes with new A14 notes, reducing our cost of debt. I would like to thank our credit investors for their extremely strong support in this transaction. Overall, a very pleasing first half of the year. We continue to progress against our strategic agenda and I remain confident in the outlook for the rest of the year.
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