A visit to Portland Port was in the diary today, but before I got there I dropped in again on the former soldier, whose home is being refurbished to meet his disabilities. A site visit with all the contributors had been planned and when I got there at 0940 the house was full of people. We were all briefed by the architect, who went through the last meeting's minutes. The couple involved have had to deal with this issue for a staggering three years. They are understandably at the end of their tether. I had to leave at 1015 to meet the Chairman of a new marine engineering company which has just located in Portland Port. The Chairman, Slawomir Kalicki, had come all the way from Poland to meet me, so I had not wanted to be late. I also had the pleasure to meet Craig Didio, the inspirational production manager from Wales. I say inspirational because the drive and determination that has taken him to where he is today is quite extraordinary and a lesson for any young person. I hope he will speak at next year's Apprenticeship Fair at Weymouth College, where his story will ring many bells with the students there. We talked for a good hour before we went on to the shop floor to meet the employees. Three were local; two from Portland and one from Dorchester. This company is expanding rapidly and has only recently finished sticking our aircraft carriers together at Rosyth, such is their specialist skills. The company is truly international and still family run. At this site at Portland Port, the chairman has invested in some specialist and extremely expensive plant and machinery to cut and shape steel. It's all based in a cavernous warehouse, where, before long, they hope to start building a vessel with aluminium. I was most impressed and this is exactly the sort of company we need to attract to the area.