Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014

Then there is an impact assessment on that?

Correct.

I can say only that I just inquired about it and was not given one in the Printed Paper Office, w...

My Lords, I have a copy of it here. I am quite happy to pass it to the noble Lord.

Maybe I am getting horribly confused—that is quite likely—but the one I have just been given by t...

I have this other one, too.

I see—I now also have the single carriageway one here. Maybe the clerk has only the one of them. ...

My Lords, thank you. These draft regulations are being made to increase the national speed limit ...

I thank the Minister for explaining the purpose and reasoning behind these regulations. I have on...

I thank the noble Lord for a number of interesting points. I shall endeavour to answer as many as...

My Lords, it may be that the Minister intended to deal with this in writing, but does he have the...

The impact assessment states an additional two to three fatalities a year, assuming no other chan...

Is the Minister referring to the overall reduction in road deaths?

The figure is in the recently published report of road casualties in the United Kingdom overall. ...

I suggest, as does the Explanatory Memorandum, that that is not attributed to increasing speed li...

An increase in speed limits is just coming into force. It is not the reason for fewer deaths. The...

So why do the Government want to increase the speed limit to 60 miles per hour if the Minister is...

I am saying that by increasing the limit to 60 miles per hour, the chances of their breaking the ...

I thought the Minister just said that there is a device on lorries that stops them going in exces...

All lorries have speed limiters set at 56 miles per hour. There is no harm in increasing to 60 mi...

The Minister will accept that if that is his argument, that is an argument for increasing the 30 ...

I had better write to the noble Lord on our reasons for increasing the speed limit. The noble Lor...

The noble Lord was entitled to say that I ought to know the answer already, but obviously the fac...

Yes, if the local authority feels that, in certain parts of the area, having higher speed limits ...

I am simply asking the question because I do not know the answer. Is it correct that that would a...

The answer is yes. We talked about the speed limit being out of date. Let me write to the noble L...

I am happy to accept a written response from the Minister on that point.

My Lords, we talked about the speed limit being out of date. I said earlier that, while heavy goo...