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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the policy on stopping child benefit for families whose children start apprenticeships on access to and take up of apprenticeships.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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