The following other accompanying documents are published separately: • a Financial Memorandum (SP Bill 81–FM); • Explanatory Notes (SP Bill 81–EN). —————————— Presiding Officer’s Statement on Legislative Competence On 8 September 2020, the Presiding Officer (Rt Hon Ken Macintosh MSP) made the following statement: “In my view, the provisions of the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Bill would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.” —————————— Member’s Statement on Legislative Competence On 8 September 2020, the member in charge of the Bill (Gordon Lindhurst MSP on behalf of the Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee) made the following statement: “In my view, the provisions of the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Bill would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.”