House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 20 Nov 2000 (pt 9)

Demining (Afghanistan)

Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which export licence applications for the export of equipment on the Military List for demining operations in Afghanistan the Government have approved since August. [139226]

Mr. Hain: Following consultations with this Department and the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Trade and Industry recently issued a licence for the export of Military Listed mine-clearance equipment for use by OMAR International, a UN funded NGO, to aid their demining activities in Afghanistan. This licence was granted for humanitarian purposes and it does not affect the Government's continued support for the EU Common Position on arms exports to Afghanistan.

Israeli Military Helicopters

Mr. Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what investigations are being undertaken into the use of Israeli military helicopters using parts exported by United Kingdom companies. [138988]

Mr. Hain: We are closely monitoring the current violence in the Middle East, including the equipment used by the Israeli Defence Forces in the Occupied Territories. We have no evidence that British equipment licensed for export under this Government has been used against civilians in the Occupied Territories. We continue to look at all applications for licences to export defence equipment to Israel on a case-by-case basis against consolidated EU and national arms export licensing criteria.

Zimbabwe

Mr. Rowe: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British citizens resident in Zimbabwe have been affected by the actions

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of the Zimbabwean Government which have recently been ruled illegal by the Supreme Court; and if he will make a statement. [138839]

Mr. Hain: British nationals overseas are not obliged to register with British missions. Those that do register are not asked about their property holdings. It is therefore impossible to say how many British citizens might be affected by the Supreme Court ruling in Zimbabwe on 10 November.

Departmental Expenditure

(Special Missions and Services)

Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the special missions and services included in the other external relations section of his Department's expenditure plans for 2000-01. [138354]

Mr. Hain: The planned expenditure of £17.574 million for special missions and services, information services, sponsored visits and lecture tours, given at Table 28 of the departmental expenditure plans for 2000-01 (Command 4609), is broken down as follows:

(a) £7.274 million for general programme activities comprising payments for:

Military training delivered by loan service personnel--£923K

Other training assistance--£771K

Environmental policy--£665K

Climate change challenge fund--£500K

Royal visits--£487K

Conflict prevention--£448K

War Crimes Tribunal--£350K

Small Commonwealth states office--£256K

Peacekeeping incidental expenses (visas, medication)--£240K

Commonwealth human rights fund--£205K

Counter terrorism assistance--£204K

Peacekeeping training--£204K

Crisis management--£125K

Other programme items of less than £100K--£1.895 million

(b) £2.8 million sponsorship of visits to the UK by foreign dignitaries

(d) £1.4 million consular information campaign.

(e) £1.3 million challenge fund--overseas assistance projects over £25K where FCO funds are often matched by private sponsorship.

(f) £1.1 million OSCE projects.

These planning figures are based on expenditure during the previous year.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Connexions Service

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each local education authority (a) the amounts spent and (b) the

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full-time equivalent numbers directly employed in the Youth Service in each of the last three years, together with a projection of the proportion of that (i) expenditure and (ii) staff to be transferred to the Connexions Service. [137032]

Mr. Wicks [holding answer 7 November 2000]: The table gives the information requested in respect of the amounts spent for each local education authority in the Youth Service for the last three years. The figures are drawn from the local authority returns (RO1) for 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99, which is the latest year available. The three years prior to 1996-97 are included to indicate how spending is recovering from cuts in services in 1995-96.

My Department does not collate the numbers employed by local authorities within their Youth Services. The 1998 audit of England's Local Authority Youth Services,

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"England's Youth Service--the 1998 Audit," indicated that there were approximately 7,190 full-time equivalent Youth Service delivery staff employed in 1996-97.

Details of the Youth Service resources that will contribute to the delivery of the Connexions Service are not yet available. We have asked the Connexions Partnerships introducing the service in 2001-02 to identify the Youth Service resources that local authorities in their areas propose to bring within the Connexions Service framework. This information will be set out in the business and delivery plans that Partnerships will be submitting at the beginning of 2001. The Connexions Service Business Planning Guidance indicates our expectation that local authorities will wish to contribute a significant proportion of their Youth Service provision to the delivery of the Connexions Service. This may include, for example, incorporating youth workers within the multi-disciplinary teams of personal advisers created at local level.

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Net current expenditure after recharges (RO1 line 29) by English LEAs on the Youth Service from 1993-94 to 1998-99⁽⁷⁾^,⁽⁸⁾£000

1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 ⁽⁹⁾1998-99

Corporation of London 0 10 40 130 90 100

Avon 6,380 6,540 6,820 -- -- --

Barking and Dagenham 1,490 1,440 1,220 1,320 1,280 1,280

Barnet 1,620 1,650 1,480 1,540 1,650 1,950

Barnsley 820 1,070 1,210 1,530 1,360 1,630

Bath and North East Somerset -- -- -- 570 1,230 1,310

Bedfordshire 2,580 2,510 2,300 2,190 1,400 1,190

Berkshire 4,220 4,470 4,780 4,920 4,990 --

Bexley 1,350 870 1,060 1,120 1,150 1,460

Birmingham 5,890 7,010 6,680 6,800 7,430 8,140

Blackburn -- -- -- -- -- 1,030

Blackpool -- -- -- -- -- 600

Bolton 1,700 1,540 1,570 1,560 1,200 1,340

Bournemouth -- -- -- -- 1,040 1,000

Bracknell Forest -- -- -- -- -- 740

Bradford 3,270 4,900 4,640 4,200 4,280 4,290

Brent 3,930 3,570 2,670 2,570 2,410 2,480

Brighton and Hove -- -- -- -- 710 1,050

Bristol -- -- -- 2,380 2,380 1,040

Bromley 920 970 880 890 960 2,210

Buckinghamshire 5,360 3,970 3,970 3,820 2,440 1,970

Bury 890 940 1,090 850 710 820

Calderdale 1,740 1,910 1,890 2,150 2,070 1,980

Cambridgeshire 5,270 5,020 3,860 3,600 3,110 2,410

Camden 1,850 2,180 2,310 2,310 2,040 2,190

Cheshire 4,240 5,140 3,910 3,730 3,980 2,610

Cleveland 4,720 5,070 5,150 -- -- --

Cornwall 1,920 2,030 2,380 2,110 2,070 2,460

Coventry 1,760 1,750 1,830 2,330 2,510 2,100

Croydon 1,700 1,730 1,690 1,770 1,740 1,860

Cumbria 2,150 1,600 1,550 1,590 1,530 1,610

Darlington -- -- -- -- 520 560

Derby City -- -- -- -- 1,140 1,410

Derbyshire 5,970 6,450 5,610 5,520 4,230 4,320

Devon 4,780 4,160 2,970 3,170 3,150 2,130

Doncaster 1,900 1,980 1,890 1,710 1,730 1,870

Dorset 3,390 3,610 3,710 3,770 2,010 2,320

Dudley 970 1,090 1,100 1,070 1,180 1,190

Durham 4,620 4,370 3,740 3,970 3,650 3,740

Ealing 1,120 1,110 1,230 1,010 940 1,080

East Riding of Yorkshire -- -- -- 1,320 1,300 1,360

East Sussex 2,020 2,260 2,210 2,100 1,610 1,500

Enfield 690 740 690 750 900 970

Essex 9,790 11,270 8,930 8,950 8,760 5,780

Gateshead 1,160 980 900 990 930 1,150

Gloucestershire 3,340 3,520 3,060 3,010 2,980 2,590

Greenwich 2,020 1,750 1,830 1,900 1,920 2,220

Hackney 3,630 3,260 2,810 1,820 1,370 1,240

Halton -- -- -- -- -- 870

Hammersmith and Fulham 1,980 830 790 1,210 1,430 1,050

Hampshire 3,930 4,280 4,130 4,470 3,110 3,430

Haringey 800 850 810 1,250 1,190 1,540

Harrow 780 830 910 1,020 740 810

Hartlepool -- -- -- 860 850 920

Havering 1,060 1,040 910 900 1,090 1,220

Hereford and Worcester 2,370 2,360 2,110 2,120 2,370 520

Hertfordshire 4,680 5,000 4,870 5,150 5,610 4,910

Hillingdon 1,530 1,640 1,290 1,590 1,520 1,670

Hounslow 940 880 870 960 990 1,180

Humberside 6,260 6,200 6,380 -- -- --

Isle of Wight 1,030 1,050 940 930 1,010 970

Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 0 0

Islington 3,450 3,520 3,700 3,800 4,110 3,380

Kensington and Chelsea 2,330 2,330 1,790 3,570 3,750 2,720

Kent 6,040 8,730 4,440 5,240 4,930 4,580

Kingston-upon-Hull -- -- -- 2,130 2,110 1,400

Kingston upon Thames 820 800 880 630 640 590

Kirklees 3,270 3,820 2,850 1,430 1,310 2,070

Knowsley 2,120 0 0 20 0 490

Lambeth 2,480 2,750 3,480 1,610 1,840 1,860

Lancashire 10,370 10,790 10,680 10,250 10,790 6,410

Leeds 3,790 4,260 4,350 4,570 5,360 11,910

Leicester City -- -- -- -- 2,450 2,730

Leicestershire 6,600 6,390 5,210 5,140 3,170 3,380

Lewisham 1,330 640 10 1,470 1,810 1800

Lincolnshire 2,040 2,150 2,010 2,100 2,140 2,240

Liverpool 6,520 6,220 6,530 6,600 6,400 6,710

Luton -- -- -- -- 1,030 970

Manchester 3,300 2,710 2,810 2,740 2,670 2,860

Merton 930 830 520 520 490 530

Middlesbrough -- -- -- 1,380 260 630

Milton Keynes -- -- -- -- 1,450 1,470

Newbury -- -- -- -- -- 710

Newcastle upon Tyne 1,600 2,410 2,440 2,680 2,570 3,020

Newham 2,560 2,360 2,110 2,100 2,230 1,860

Norfolk 2,970 3,250 3,030 3,100 3,150 2,890

North East Lincolnshire -- -- -- 870 650 680

North Lincolnshire -- -- -- 1,090 970 1,210

North Somerset -- -- -- 900 870 850

North Tyneside 300 270 260 230 230 300

North Yorkshire 2,850 2,900 2,750 1,530 1,600 1,200

Northamptonshire 2,750 2,880 2,920 2,930 2,990 3,170

Northumberland 1,820 2,250 2,010 1,700 1,280 1,170

Nottingham City -- -- -- -- -- 2,950

Nottinghamshire 6,660 6,800 7,000 7,140 7,500 5,060

Oldham 1,140 1,240 1,200 1,390 2,310 2,660

Oxfordshire 2,760 3,240 3,470 2,790 2,700 2,690

Peterborough -- -- -- -- -- 160

Plymouth -- -- -- -- -- 240

Poole -- -- -- -- 720 700

Portsmouth -- -- -- -- 0 0

Reading -- -- -- -- -- 2,130

Redbridge 1,390 1,400 1,370 1,340 1,190 1,310

Redcar and Cleveland -- -- -- 890 1,050 1,130

Richmond upon Thames 760 860 930 880 890 910

Rochdale 1,320 1,440 1,440 1,410 1,390 1,240

Rochester and Gillingham -- -- -- -- -- 810

Rotherham 2,380 2,460 2,180 1,720 2,720 3,420

Rutland -- -- -- -- 150 220

Salford 980 980 950 1,000 1,110 1,180

Sandwell 690 730 880 980 1,230 1,350

Sefton 1,410 1,510 1,440 1,500 1,510 1,680

Sheffield 4,050 4,320 4,290 4,190 3,970 4,170

Shropshire 3,060 3,010 2,720 2,630 2,550 1,400

Slough -- -- -- -- -- 900

Solihull 780 710 620 530 610 640

Somerset 2,260 2,340 2,040 2,220 2,390 2,350

South Gloucestershire --- -- -- 820 890 870

South Tyneside 1,040 1,000 900 990 940 990

Southampton -- -- -- -- 770 820

Southend -- -- -- -- -- 720

Southwark 1,590 2,760 3,000 3,510 3,820 4,050

St. Helens 380 470 640 400 850 890

Staffordshire 10,710 10,320 8,850 8,340 6,630 6,460

Stockport 1,320 1,130 1,150 1,170 1,300 1,510

Stockton-on-Tees -- -- -- 1,190 1,170 1,060

Stoke on Trent -- -- -- -- 1,090 770

Suffolk 1,480 0 0 0 0 0

Sunderland 1,860 1,830 1,900 1,940 510 1,090

Surrey 5,100 5,890 5,200 5,000 4,640 4,830

Sutton 1,040 1,180 1,220 1,200 1,140 1,190

Swindon -- -- -- -- 1,200 1,030

Tameside 2,900 2,540 1,790 1,830 1,670 1,740

The Wrekin -- -- -- -- -- 1,200

Thurrock -- -- -- -- -- 1,070

Torbay -- -- -- -- -- 410

Tower Hamlets 4,600 4,540 4,160 4,180 3,930 3,760

Trafford 1,080 1,040 1,020 1,060 1,030 1,470

Wakefield 1,420 1,390 1,350 1,370 1,740 1,570

Walsall 1,080 1,350 310 150 1,200 1,410

Waltham Forest 2,180 1,890 1,910 1,770 1,910 2,180

Wandsworth 3,180 3,240 3,140 3,070 2,960 3,100

Warrington -- -- -- -- -- 850

Warwickshire 790 970 750 760 940 1,100

West Sussex 4,200 4,490 3,990 3,320 3,400 3,590

Westminister 2,390 2,450 2,700 2,760 2,840 2,190

Wigan 1,010 1,100 1,110 1,090 1,160 1,200

Wiltshire 5,110 5,000 4,030 4,220 2,660 1,680

Windsor and Maidenhead -- -- -- -- -- 580

Wirral 2,590 2,530 2,250 2,220 1,960 1,940

Wokingham -- -- -- -- -- 470

Wolverhampton 2,690 2,900 2,830 2,920 2,990 2,840

Worcestershire -- -- -- -- -- 1,670

York -- -- -- 740 850 920

National Total 296,060 302,550 279,140 274,420 277,400 285,610

	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	⁽⁹⁾1998-99
Corporation of London	0	10	40	130	90	100
Avon	6,380	6,540	6,820	--	--	--
Barking and Dagenham	1,490	1,440	1,220	1,320	1,280	1,280
Barnet	1,620	1,650	1,480	1,540	1,650	1,950
Barnsley	820	1,070	1,210	1,530	1,360	1,630
Bath and North East Somerset	--	--	--	570	1,230	1,310
Bedfordshire	2,580	2,510	2,300	2,190	1,400	1,190
Berkshire	4,220	4,470	4,780	4,920	4,990	--
Bexley	1,350	870	1,060	1,120	1,150	1,460
Birmingham	5,890	7,010	6,680	6,800	7,430	8,140
Blackburn	--	--	--	--	--	1,030
Blackpool	--	--	--	--	--	600
Bolton	1,700	1,540	1,570	1,560	1,200	1,340
Bournemouth	--	--	--	--	1,040	1,000
Bracknell Forest	--	--	--	--	--	740
Bradford	3,270	4,900	4,640	4,200	4,280	4,290
Brent	3,930	3,570	2,670	2,570	2,410	2,480
Brighton and Hove	--	--	--	--	710	1,050
Bristol	--	--	--	2,380	2,380	1,040
Bromley	920	970	880	890	960	2,210
Buckinghamshire	5,360	3,970	3,970	3,820	2,440	1,970
Bury	890	940	1,090	850	710	820
Calderdale	1,740	1,910	1,890	2,150	2,070	1,980
Cambridgeshire	5,270	5,020	3,860	3,600	3,110	2,410
Camden	1,850	2,180	2,310	2,310	2,040	2,190
Cheshire	4,240	5,140	3,910	3,730	3,980	2,610
Cleveland	4,720	5,070	5,150	--	--	--
Cornwall	1,920	2,030	2,380	2,110	2,070	2,460
Coventry	1,760	1,750	1,830	2,330	2,510	2,100
Croydon	1,700	1,730	1,690	1,770	1,740	1,860
Cumbria	2,150	1,600	1,550	1,590	1,530	1,610
Darlington	--	--	--	--	520	560
Derby City	--	--	--	--	1,140	1,410
Derbyshire	5,970	6,450	5,610	5,520	4,230	4,320
Devon	4,780	4,160	2,970	3,170	3,150	2,130
Doncaster	1,900	1,980	1,890	1,710	1,730	1,870
Dorset	3,390	3,610	3,710	3,770	2,010	2,320
Dudley	970	1,090	1,100	1,070	1,180	1,190
Durham	4,620	4,370	3,740	3,970	3,650	3,740
Ealing	1,120	1,110	1,230	1,010	940	1,080
East Riding of Yorkshire	--	--	--	1,320	1,300	1,360
East Sussex	2,020	2,260	2,210	2,100	1,610	1,500
Enfield	690	740	690	750	900	970
Essex	9,790	11,270	8,930	8,950	8,760	5,780
Gateshead	1,160	980	900	990	930	1,150
Gloucestershire	3,340	3,520	3,060	3,010	2,980	2,590
Greenwich	2,020	1,750	1,830	1,900	1,920	2,220
Hackney	3,630	3,260	2,810	1,820	1,370	1,240
Halton	--	--	--	--	--	870
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,980	830	790	1,210	1,430	1,050
Hampshire	3,930	4,280	4,130	4,470	3,110	3,430
Haringey	800	850	810	1,250	1,190	1,540
Harrow	780	830	910	1,020	740	810
Hartlepool	--	--	--	860	850	920
Havering	1,060	1,040	910	900	1,090	1,220
Hereford and Worcester	2,370	2,360	2,110	2,120	2,370	520
Hertfordshire	4,680	5,000	4,870	5,150	5,610	4,910
Hillingdon	1,530	1,640	1,290	1,590	1,520	1,670
Hounslow	940	880	870	960	990	1,180
Humberside	6,260	6,200	6,380	--	--	--
Isle of Wight	1,030	1,050	940	930	1,010	970
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0
Islington	3,450	3,520	3,700	3,800	4,110	3,380
Kensington and Chelsea	2,330	2,330	1,790	3,570	3,750	2,720
Kent	6,040	8,730	4,440	5,240	4,930	4,580
Kingston-upon-Hull	--	--	--	2,130	2,110	1,400
Kingston upon Thames	820	800	880	630	640	590
Kirklees	3,270	3,820	2,850	1,430	1,310	2,070
Knowsley	2,120	0	0	20	0	490
Lambeth	2,480	2,750	3,480	1,610	1,840	1,860
Lancashire	10,370	10,790	10,680	10,250	10,790	6,410
Leeds	3,790	4,260	4,350	4,570	5,360	11,910
Leicester City	--	--	--	--	2,450	2,730
Leicestershire	6,600	6,390	5,210	5,140	3,170	3,380
Lewisham	1,330	640	10	1,470	1,810	1800
Lincolnshire	2,040	2,150	2,010	2,100	2,140	2,240
Liverpool	6,520	6,220	6,530	6,600	6,400	6,710
Luton	--	--	--	--	1,030	970
Manchester	3,300	2,710	2,810	2,740	2,670	2,860
Merton	930	830	520	520	490	530
Middlesbrough	--	--	--	1,380	260	630
Milton Keynes	--	--	--	--	1,450	1,470
Newbury	--	--	--	--	--	710
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,600	2,410	2,440	2,680	2,570	3,020
Newham	2,560	2,360	2,110	2,100	2,230	1,860
Norfolk	2,970	3,250	3,030	3,100	3,150	2,890
North East Lincolnshire	--	--	--	870	650	680
North Lincolnshire	--	--	--	1,090	970	1,210
North Somerset	--	--	--	900	870	850
North Tyneside	300	270	260	230	230	300
North Yorkshire	2,850	2,900	2,750	1,530	1,600	1,200
Northamptonshire	2,750	2,880	2,920	2,930	2,990	3,170
Northumberland	1,820	2,250	2,010	1,700	1,280	1,170
Nottingham City	--	--	--	--	--	2,950
Nottinghamshire	6,660	6,800	7,000	7,140	7,500	5,060
Oldham	1,140	1,240	1,200	1,390	2,310	2,660
Oxfordshire	2,760	3,240	3,470	2,790	2,700	2,690
Peterborough	--	--	--	--	--	160
Plymouth	--	--	--	--	--	240
Poole	--	--	--	--	720	700
Portsmouth	--	--	--	--	0	0
Reading	--	--	--	--	--	2,130
Redbridge	1,390	1,400	1,370	1,340	1,190	1,310
Redcar and Cleveland	--	--	--	890	1,050	1,130
Richmond upon Thames	760	860	930	880	890	910
Rochdale	1,320	1,440	1,440	1,410	1,390	1,240
Rochester and Gillingham	--	--	--	--	--	810
Rotherham	2,380	2,460	2,180	1,720	2,720	3,420
Rutland	--	--	--	--	150	220
Salford	980	980	950	1,000	1,110	1,180
Sandwell	690	730	880	980	1,230	1,350
Sefton	1,410	1,510	1,440	1,500	1,510	1,680
Sheffield	4,050	4,320	4,290	4,190	3,970	4,170
Shropshire	3,060	3,010	2,720	2,630	2,550	1,400
Slough	--	--	--	--	--	900
Solihull	780	710	620	530	610	640
Somerset	2,260	2,340	2,040	2,220	2,390	2,350
South Gloucestershire	---	--	--	820	890	870
South Tyneside	1,040	1,000	900	990	940	990
Southampton	--	--	--	--	770	820
Southend	--	--	--	--	--	720
Southwark	1,590	2,760	3,000	3,510	3,820	4,050
St. Helens	380	470	640	400	850	890
Staffordshire	10,710	10,320	8,850	8,340	6,630	6,460
Stockport	1,320	1,130	1,150	1,170	1,300	1,510
Stockton-on-Tees	--	--	--	1,190	1,170	1,060
Stoke on Trent	--	--	--	--	1,090	770
Suffolk	1,480	0	0	0	0	0
Sunderland	1,860	1,830	1,900	1,940	510	1,090
Surrey	5,100	5,890	5,200	5,000	4,640	4,830
Sutton	1,040	1,180	1,220	1,200	1,140	1,190
Swindon	--	--	--	--	1,200	1,030
Tameside	2,900	2,540	1,790	1,830	1,670	1,740
The Wrekin	--	--	--	--	--	1,200
Thurrock	--	--	--	--	--	1,070
Torbay	--	--	--	--	--	410
Tower Hamlets	4,600	4,540	4,160	4,180	3,930	3,760
Trafford	1,080	1,040	1,020	1,060	1,030	1,470
Wakefield	1,420	1,390	1,350	1,370	1,740	1,570
Walsall	1,080	1,350	310	150	1,200	1,410
Waltham Forest	2,180	1,890	1,910	1,770	1,910	2,180
Wandsworth	3,180	3,240	3,140	3,070	2,960	3,100
Warrington	--	--	--	--	--	850
Warwickshire	790	970	750	760	940	1,100
West Sussex	4,200	4,490	3,990	3,320	3,400	3,590
Westminister	2,390	2,450	2,700	2,760	2,840	2,190
Wigan	1,010	1,100	1,110	1,090	1,160	1,200
Wiltshire	5,110	5,000	4,030	4,220	2,660	1,680
Windsor and Maidenhead	--	--	--	--	--	580
Wirral	2,590	2,530	2,250	2,220	1,960	1,940
Wokingham	--	--	--	--	--	470
Wolverhampton	2,690	2,900	2,830	2,920	2,990	2,840
Worcestershire	--	--	--	--	--	1,670
York	--	--	--	740	850	920
National Total	296,060	302,550	279,140	274,420	277,400	285,610

⁽⁷⁾ Figures are in cash terms: i.e. they have not been corrected for inflation

⁽⁸⁾ Expenditure has been rounded to the nearest £10

⁽⁹⁾ 1998-99 figures are provisional

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