Bill Wiggin – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Wiggin on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the effect on (a) fuel consumption and (b) tax receipts of a 10 mph increase in the speed limit.

Andrew Jones

There are no plans to increase the motorway speed limit to 80 mph or to increase national speed limits by 10mph. There are no available estimates of the effect such increases would have on fuel consumption or tax receipts.

The focus of government policy on our road network is the delivery of a step change in investment.