(1) After section 426 (option to provide summary financial statement) insert -

"426A Supplementary material

(1) The supplementary material referred to in section 426 must be prepared in accordance with this section.

(2) The supplementary material must -

(a) contain a statement that the strategic report is only part of the company's annual accounts and reports;

(b) state how a person entitled to them can obtain a full copy of the company's annual accounts and reports;

(c) state whether the auditor's report on the annual accounts was unqualified or qualified and, if it was qualified, set out the report in full together with any further material needed to understand the qualification;

(d) state whether, in that report, the auditor's statement under section 496 (whether strategic report and directors' report consistent with the accounts) was unqualified or qualified and, if it was qualified, set out the qualified statement in full together with any further material needed to understand the qualification;

(e) in the case of a quoted company, contain a copy of that part of the directors' remuneration report which sets out the single total figure table in respect of the company's directors' remuneration in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 8 to the Large and Medium-sized Companies (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/410)."