Other Statutory Information.

Disabled Persons

Details of the company‘s policy relating to the recruitment, employment and training of disabled employees can be found in the Sustainability section.

Employee Involvement

Information on the action taken by the company during the year relating to employee involvement can be found in the Sustainability section.

Use of Financial Instruments

Information on the group‘s financial risk management objectives and policies and its exposure to price risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and cash flow risk can be found in note 29.

Branches

The company and its subsidiaries have established branches in a number of different countries in which they operate.

Policy on Payment of Commercial Debts

The group‘s policy in relation to the payment of all suppliers (set out in its Group Control Manual, which is distributed to all group operations) is that payment should be made within the credit terms agreed with the supplier, subject to the supplier having performed its obligations under the relevant contract. It is not the group‘s policy to follow any specific code or standard on payment practice in respect of its suppliers. At 31st March 2010, the company‘s aggregate level of ‘creditor days‘ amounted to 8 days. Creditor days are calculated by dividing the aggregate of the amounts which were outstanding as trade payables at 31st March 2010 by the aggregate of the amounts the company was invoiced by suppliers during the year ended 31st March 2010 and multiplying by 365 to express the ratio as a number of days.

Charitable Donations

During the year ended 31st March 2010 the group donated £458,000 (2009 £495,000) to charitable organisations worldwide, of which £298,000 (2009 £366,000) was in the UK.

Further details of contributions made by the group worldwide are given in the Sustainability section and in the Sustainability Report which can be found on the company‘s website at www.matthey.com.

Political Donations and Expenditure

It is the policy of the group not to make political donations. During the year ended 31st March 2010, no donations were made by the company or its subsidiaries to any EU political party, EU political organisation or to any EU independent election candidate (2009 £ nil), no EU political expenditure was incurred (2009 £ nil) and no contributions to political parties outside the EU were made within the meaning of Part 14 of the Companies Act 2006 (2009 £ nil).

Management Report

The Report of the Directors is the ‘management report‘ for the purposes of the Financial Services Authority‘s Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTR 4.1.8).

Auditors and Disclosure of Information

In accordance with section 489 of the Companies Act 2006, resolutions are to be proposed at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting for the reappointment of KPMG Audit Plc as auditors of the company and to authorise the directors to determine their remuneration.

So far as each person serving as a director of the company at the date this Report of the Directors was approved by the board is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company‘s auditors are unaware. Each director hereby confirms that he or she has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company‘s auditors are aware of that information.

The Report of the Directors was approved by the Board of Directors on 2nd June 2010 and is signed on its behalf by:

Simon Farrant

Company Secretary