All 4 results for wikipedia speaker:John Mason

Scottish Parliament: SinoFortone and China Railway No 3 Engineering Group Memorandum of Understanding (29 Mar 2017)

John Mason: That is exactly the point on which I was going to intervene on Jackie Baillie, but she did not have time to take my point. I will look at what an MOU is. I did not do a huge amount of research, but Wikipedia uses words such as “indicating an intended common line of action ... often used in cases where parties ... do not imply a legal commitment” which seems to be key. When we look at this...

Scottish Parliament: World Leprosy Day 2016 (28 Jan 2016)

John Mason: ...heard about as a child, and since then there has been an assumption that it was one of those diseases that we have dealt with and which has gone away. Sadly, that is not the case. I was looking at Wikipedia and found similar figures to those that have already been quoted: in 2012 there were 230,000 new cases, with half of them being in India. The good news in terms of figures is that 16...

Scottish Parliament: Scottish Guardianship Service (13 Jun 2013)

John Mason: ...are 34.5 million “people of concern”, of whom nearly half are young people under the age of 18. As I said, we must regret that there are so many refugees. The definition of “refugee” in Wikipedia is: “a person who is outside his or her country of origin or habitual residence because they have suffered (or fear) persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political...

Scottish Parliament: Gambling Proliferation (25 Sep 2012)

John Mason: ...some of the things that I read in the briefing that we received from the Association of British Bookmakers. For example, it claims to be part of the retail sector. That is stretching things a bit. Wikipedia’s definition of retail is “the sale of goods and services from individuals or businesses to the end-user.” I do not think that bookies quite fit in there. The association also...


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