Speed Limits: Cameras

(asked on 14th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will fund more speed cameras in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 22nd November 2023

It is up to the traffic authority and the police to decide whether to use speed cameras and how they wish to operate them. This is a local decision in which the Department for Transport does not become involved.

The Department for Transport provides funds direct to local authorities, which may be used for road safety purposes, allowing authorities to spend their allocations according to their own priorities. It is therefore for each authority to decide how it allocates its resources and which transport improvement projects to support. This could include decisions on the installation of speed cameras.

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