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Speed Limits: Schools

Asked by Cameron ThomasIndependentDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 24 June 2025UIN 60774

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of reducing speed limits to 20mph outside all schools.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The Department for Transport published a comprehensive three-year evaluation of the effect of 20mph limits, which are 20mph schemes relying only on signage, on 22 November 2018 20mph Research Study Process and Impact Evaluation Report.

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