Speed Limits

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 12 January 2012.

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Photo of Greg Knight Greg Knight Chair, Procedure Committee 10:30, 12 January 2012

I am grateful to the Minister for that reply. We heard calls earlier today for the greater use of 20 mph speed limits, but is the Minister aware that often the danger that justifies a 20 mph limit is transient, such as outside a school, where the danger is present only briefly during the school day—in the morning, at lunch time and in the afternoon? As we already have the lowest speed limits in Europe, will the Minister encourage local authorities to make greater use of variable 20 mph limits so that once the danger has passed the limit will default to 30?