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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for raising this important point. We recognise that there are potential problems with placing information on a website, particularly information such as the preliminary announcement and the annual report and accounts. One of these is the restrictions which might apply to the publication of such information in certain foreign jurisdictions—as the noble Baroness outlined—and even the risk that it might be viewed as an investment advertisement here in the UK. We should like to reflect further on the issues that the noble Baroness has raised today and come back to the matter on Report.