HC Deb 21 May 1990 vol 173 c41W
Mr. Dickens

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give consideration to the introduction of genetic passports for babies, using the biotab technique of a palm print of mother and baby at time of birth, as a means of proving the identity of a baby put up for adoption.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

There are no plans to introduce such an arrangement. We are unaware of any difficulties arising in connection with uncertainties about the identity of children placed for adoption in the United Kingdom.

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