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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

I am disappointed. I thought that the Minister might say, ““This seems to be a sensible idea, perhaps it is not in the right form, and we should sweep it up in the positive response that we gave to the earlier amendment””. To have a situation in which we annotate records that are being disputed at Companies House seems the most elaborate and unsatisfactory way of keeping those important records in a fit state to be looked at by the public—which we all agree great reliance is placed on. The Minister has not said that. We will talk to the ICAEW, and we will reflect on what he said, but I think that we will be returning to this to have another look at it. It seems a very hamfisted way of doing things. In the meantime, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 706 agreed to.