The phrase "this statement applies" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context in which you are making a declarative statement that applies to the situation or conversation at hand. For example, you could say: "This statement applies to all employees: no cellphones are allowed during work hours."
This statement applies only if the use of materials is principally for research and scholarship.
This statement applies to all information solicited or gathered on this following site: http://cognet.mit.edu/.edu/
This statement applies to two services that are usually separate, a network information service for user accounts, and the configuration of network backup services.
This statement applies equally to "Theft," in whose five wild stories we meet a multiplicity of characters in a multiplicity of settings — from Belgium and Great Britain to the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa.
This statement applies to Lolapps.
This statement applies to dewatered sludge and not to digested sludge.
In this group, fully 57.4% of women were either current or former smokers, whereas this statement applied to only 44.4% of men in the same age group.
Every part of that statement applies to the UK.
The participant has to indicate whether the statement applies to him/her on a six point scale.
This privacy statement applies to the main MIT website, which includes the MIT homepage at http://web.mit.edu (also viewable at http://mit.edu and http://www.mit.edu), as well as the following top-level pages: Education, Research, Innovation, Admissions + Aid, Campus Life, Alumni, About MIT, Visit, Contact, Accessibility, Privacy, and Feedback.
This mission statement applies to each faculty member and every process we undertake, from our interactions with patients, to our recruitment processes for our residents and fellows, to our research to understand, treat, and prevent neurological disease.
