Question follow-through · 46010
Speed Limits
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to review speed limits on non-residential roads.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to review speed limits on non-residential roads.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
Traffic authorities (including National Highways for the Strategic Road Network) have the power to set local speed limits on the roads for which they are responsible where they consider that the national speed limit is not right for the road. The Departme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Railways: Greater Manchester
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29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 46010 on Speed limits, what her planned (a) timetable and (b) scope is for the forthcoming road safety strategy.
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