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Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Whitbread FY '27 Q1 Trading Update. My name is Elliott, and I'll be coordinating your call today. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand over to Dominic Paul, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.

Dominic Paul
CEO & Director

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining the call for our Q1 trading update. I'm joined today by Hemant Patel, our Group CFO, and we look forward to answering your questions shortly. Hopefully, you've had a chance to read the Q1 release, which we published this morning. I'm going to start with a very brief overview for those who haven't seen it, and then we'll open up the call for Q&A.

It's been a strong start to the year. In the U.K., trading has been positive with total accommodation sales up 3% and RevPAR up 2% versus last year. Reflecting the strength of our brand commercial program, we increased our outperformance versus the market on both accommodation sales and RevPAR growth, delivering a healthy RevPAR premium.

In Germany, we continue to make good progress and significantly outperformed the wider market, which has been softer due to a lower number of high-impact events this year. Total accommodation sales grew by 16%, driven by the opening of 6 leasehold hotels in the period and