As soon as practicable after each financial year, the chief executive of the Supreme Court must prepare a report about the business of the Supreme Court during that year and give a copy of that report to the following persons—
the Lord Chancellor;
the First Minister in Scotland;
the First Minister and the deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland;
the First Minister for Wales.
The Lord Chancellor must lay a copy of any report of which a copy is given under subsection (1)(a) before each House of Parliament.
Each of the following is a "financial year" for the purposes of this section—
the period which begins with the date on which this section comes into force and ends with the following 31 March;
each successive period of 12 months.