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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Graeme Downie"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1722024", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Blair McDougall"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in employers National Insurance payments on local authority contracts as a result of the changes in the NHS and Social Care plan in financial years (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/394", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Clive Betts"}
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        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4597", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kemi Badenoch"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to a letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 15 July 2021, reference ZA57019 on rates of obesity.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1538", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Rosie Cooper"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1354546", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
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        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4597", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kemi Badenoch"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4653", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Morgan"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4716", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ruth Jones"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1354604", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department holds figures on the amounts spent by local authorities in England on older people\u2019s leisure activities.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4268", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Reed"}
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