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01 March 1999

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How to end the great benefit fraud, Frank Field, Times 23.3.99. This article, by Labour's former Minister for Welfare Reform, presents a "solution" to the "great benefit fraud": To "ensure that a person is who they claim to be...by DNA testing. Instead of issuing NHS and child benefit numbers at birth, a single national insurance number could be issued, linked to a person's DNA."

The hounding of the tinkers, Fisher Dilke. Independent on Sunday magazine 25.4.99, pp10-15. Account of Sweden's enforced sterilisation programme: "Sweden...had sterilised more than 63,000 people, 90 percent of whom were female. About 11,500 of the 63,000 were mentally disabled." Between 1935-1941 about 500 sterilisations were performed each year. In 1941 the law was changed, and it became legal for sterilisation to be performed on people who were deemed to have an "antisocial lifestyle"...this change in the law was used to target a particular sector of society - travellers.

Parliamentary debates

Human Rights (Women) Commons 10.2.99. cols. 256-278
Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill Lords 13.4.99. cols. 647-764

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