Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 53629

Speed Limits

Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 27 May 2025

Question

Mary Kelly Foy

LabourCity of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the weight that should be given to quality of life issues when assessing local speed limits.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
Traffic authorities have the power to make speed limits on the public roads which they manage.  English authorities are asked to consider the best practice guidance ‘Setting Local Speed Limits’, designed to make sure that speed limits are appropriately an...

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