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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2022 to Question 69827 on Carers: Leave, what progress her Department has made on creating an allowance and a new entitlement to kinship leave for all special guardians and kinship carers with a Child Arrangements Order in place.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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