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Road Signs and Markings: Speed Limits

Asked by Helen MorganLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 11 December 2025UIN 97934

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2025 to question 95755, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of lamp columns as speed limit repeaters.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

The Department has made no recent assessment of the adequacy of lamp columns as speed limit repeaters. The presence of street lighting in a 30 mph limit acts as the speed limit repeater, this has been law for over 70 years and all drivers are required to learn this in order to pass their driving test.

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