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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2019 to Question 255697 on Alcoholic Drinks: Sales, what assessment he has made of whether the BSI Publicly Available Specification (a) 499: 2019 entitled Code of practice for digital identification and strong customer authentication and (b) 1296:2018 entitled Online age checking: Provision and use of online age check services: Code of Practice could be used to amend the mandatory licensing condition on age verification.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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