Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals for a default 20mph motor vehicle speed limit for urban areas in the UK.
The Department published a comprehensive three-year evaluation of the effect of 20mph signed-only limits on 22 November 2018.
The research substantially strengthens the evidence base on perceptions, speeds and early outcomes associated with 20mph speed limits, and is the only major UK study to consider multiple case study areas and provide a national view.
The headline findings were: