Question follow-through · 53628

Speed Limits

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on considering the hierarchy of road users when assessing local speed limits.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
20 May 2025
Target answer date
22 May 2025
Answer
27 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on considering the hierarchy of road users when assessing local speed limits.

  2. 22 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 May 2025

    Answer published

    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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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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