Baroness Pinnock – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Pinnock on 2015-02-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to give the responsibility for traffic speed enforcement on roads with a 30mph limit to local authorities.

Baroness Kramer

Her Majesty’s Government does not plan to give responsibility for traffic speed enforcement to the local authorities. These decisions on where to apply speed limits are taken by local authorities in conjunction with the police force for the area in question, whose role it is to properly enforce these.