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Donations
During the year, HSBC made charitable donations
totalling US$30,647,000. Of this amount,
US$11,156,000 was given for charitable purposes in
the United Kingdom.
No political donations were made during the
year.
It is not proposed that HSBC's longstanding
policy of not making contributions to any political
party be changed but, as a precautionary measure in
the light of the wide definitions in The Political
Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,
resolutions to permit HSBC Holdings and HSBC
Bank plc to make political donations and incur
political expenditure up to a maximum aggregate
sum of £250,000 and £50,000 respectively will be
proposed at the 2002 Annual General Meeting.
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of HSBC Holdings
will be held at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre,
London EC2 on Friday 31 May 2002 at 11.00 am.
An informal meeting of shareholders will be
held at Level 28, 1 Queens Road Central, Hong
Kong on Tuesday 28 May 2002 at 4.00 pm.
A live webcast of the Annual General Meeting
will be available on www.hsbc.com. From shortly
after the conclusion of the Meeting until 30 June
2002 a recording of the proceedings will be available
on www.hsbc.com.
Auditor
KPMG Audit Plc has expressed its willingness to
continue in office and the Board recommends that it
be reappointed. A resolution proposing the
reappointment of KPMG Audit Plc as auditor of
HSBC Holdings and giving authority to the Directors
to determine its remuneration will be submitted to
the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.
On behalf of the Board
R G Barber, Secretary 4 March 2002