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Communities with high rates of cousin marriages are significantly more likely to claim disability benefits, according to new data seen by The Mail on Sunday.
Analysis shows a rise of a quarter in the handouts in areas where the practice is more common.
For example, in Bradford, where one in six children is born to parents who are cousins, disability benefits are 23 per cent higher than average, costing the taxpayer millions of pounds more every week.
Experts say that the increase is down to the higher risk of birth defects and deformities – which include blindness, hearing loss and schizophrenia – when a child’s parents are so closely related.
The news comes after the MoS revealed last week that the NHS has been accused of ‘taking the knee’ to political correctness after it published guidance advocating cousin marriage, saying it offered benefits such as ‘stronger extended family support systems’.
Cousin marriage is most common in British-Pakistani communities, which account for around
Four per cent of all births nationwide but about 30 per cent of recessive gene disorders.
Experts believe that the resulting birth defects have caused 20 per cent of infant deaths in Birmingham, 20 per cent in Redbridge in East London, and 53 per cent of all South Asian infant deaths in Bradford.
Dr Patrick Nash, director of the Pharos Foundation social science research group in Oxford, said: ‘These chronically inbred populations are at much higher risk of death, serious disability, non-fatal development issues and lifelong ill-health.
‘Rogue statistics and terrible public health advice are serving to minimise the dangers of cousin marriage and disguise the true scale of the problem.’
Richard Holden, the Tory MP who is campaigning to ban the practice, said: ‘First cousin marriage undermines everything modern Britain stands for in terms of personal freedom and integration.
‘It is beyond time that this backward cultural practice was banned.
‘Those who seek to defend it out of misplaced and outdated ideas of cultural relativism should consider the terrible impact their actions are having on our society and the individuals they are harming, not helping.’
A YouGov poll this year found three-quarters of Britons support a ban on cousin marriage, with only 9 per cent thinking the law should remain as it is.