Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the extent to which local authorities adhere to his Department's guidance on setting local speed limits.

No assessment has been made of the extent to which local authorities adhere to the Department for Transport’s guidance on setting local speed limits.

The Department for Transport’s guidance Setting Local Speed Limits is non-mandatory guidance designed to make sure that speed limits are appropriately and consistently set while allowing for flexibility to deal with local circumstances, but the final decision is for the authority, working with the police who would carry out any enforcement.