Part 1: The Small Business Commissioner Section 9: Annual report
This section provides that the Commissioner must publish an annual report after the end of each reporting period and send it to the Secretary of State (subsections (1) and (2)). The first reporting period will begin when section 1 comes into force and end on 31 March. Subsequent reporting periods are each twelve-month period after that.
	Each annual report should contain information which is useful to the Secretary of State in reviewing the Commissioner under section 10, as well as to users of the Small Business Commissioner generally. Subsection (3) requires that the Secretary of State lay a copy of the report before Parliament.