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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of (a) young people's access to extracurricular activities designed to help their personal development and (b) opportunities for increasing the availability of such activities.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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