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Baroness Deech (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 February 2026

Debate

Better Start Longitudinal Programmes

Contribution

My Lords, the Minister has expressed the commendable ambition of raising the healthiest generation of young children ever. So why have the Government done nothing to condemn and educate about, if not prohibit, cousin marriage, the babies from which suffer twice the number of birth defects as those from non-cousin marriage?

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