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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the worked ivory sales in the UK market is post-1947 ivory.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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