Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 69154

Tractors and Trailers: Speed Limits

Tabled: 18 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025

Question

Edward Morello

Liberal Democrat — West Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that tractor and trailer drivers comply with legal speed limits on public roads.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
Local authorities are asked to have regard to the Department’s guidance Setting Local Speed Limits, designed to make sure that speed limits are appropriately and consistently set while allowing for flexibility to deal with local circumstances, but the fin...
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