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Companies Bill [HL]

My Lords, before calling the next amendment, I must advise the House that due entirely to my inability to read the Clerk’s handwriting, I misread the result of the vote on Amendment No. 245D. The results were, in fact, that the Contents were 48—as I read—but that the Not-Contents were 152, not 192 as I read out. I apologise to the House; it makes no difference to the result of the vote on that amendment.