Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 19989

Congenital Abnormalities: Health Services

Tabled: 12 December 2024
Answered: 20 December 2024

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the costs to the NHS of treating birth defects resulting from cousin marriage in each of the past ten years.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government has not carried out an assessment of the costs to the National Health Service of treating birth defects resulting from cousin marriage.We will continue to work with the NHS as it delivers its three-year maternity and neonatal plan to grow o...
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