Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the national speed limit on motorways.

Any change to the speed limit would have to be based on a full and sound understanding of the wider safety, environmental and other impacts of such a change.

A previous Government made an initial assessment of the possibility of introducing trials of 80 mph limits. A decision on whether to change the limit would be for this Government but we currently have no plans to do so.