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Questions to the First Minister
… making their voice heard by signing the Senedd's record-breaking petition to rescind your Government's default 20 mph speed limit. Many of those signing that petition feel frustrated that they see a Government that they feel …
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Questions to the First Minister
… How is the Welsh Government planning to respond to the petition on default 20 mph speed limits submitted to the Senedd? OQ59988
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Questions to the First Minister
… there are no plans to do so. This is a policy designed to make a default position of 20 mph on roads that serve built-up residential areas, with scope for local authorities to retain 30 mph where …
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Statement by the Llywydd
… you will all be aware, the Senedd currently has a petition calling for the default 20 mph speed limit to be rescinded, which is receiving an unprecedented number of signatures. I wanted to make all Members aware that …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The health budget
… funding to spend by the end of 2023, the fact that £40 million has been spent on 20 mph road signs, and that over £135 million was spent on an M4 relief road project that never saw the …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The health budget
… because promises made to build the hospital in Rhyl have been shelved for more politicians and a blanket 20 mph limit. It's a case of priorities, and the Welsh Government have all of theirs in the wrong …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The health budget
… okay to blow millions of pounds on 36 more politicians in Cardiff Bay and impose the blanket 20 mph policy, against the wishes of the majority of the people of Wales. All I would simply say to that …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The health budget
… that you’re continuing to waste money: £7.3 million on a failed racetrack, £33 million rolling out 20 mph, £52 million on Cardiff Airport, plus all the hundreds of other money that’s gone on that, and …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
… time. It certainly doesn't give us the luxury of having pseudo-culture wars about a default 20 mph. Far too many households live in transport poverty, spending more than 10 per cent of their income, simply because …
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
… been looking into the extra costs that they face as a result of this Government's unwanted 20 mph speed limit project. Taking into account things like extra maintenance costs and the impact slower speeds will have, the …
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
… What assessment has the Minister made of the impact that 20mph speed limits will have on the Welsh economy? OQ59914
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Statement by the Llywydd
Before we begin today's proceedings, I'd like to make some points concerning the debate surrounding the 20 mph regulations that came into force over the weekend. Overnight, I've become aware of several Members—myself included …
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Questions to the First Minister
… moral high ground for the opposition to stand upon today, because it's not just the false blanket 20 mph speed limit statement, as my colleague John Griffiths referred to earlier, but also the targeting of individuals with …
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Questions to the First Minister
… right, First Minister? There is a petition, as we’ve heard, on the Petitions Committee website against the 20 mph blanket ban that has come in, up to 162,000 signatures. You are proposing to put another …
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Questions to the First Minister
… true. It is, as the questioner at least had the grace to say in his question, a default 20 mph speed limit, and then local authorities have the ability, and all local authorities have exercised this ability …
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I very much agree with you that 20 mph rolled out as a default speed limit is going to save lives and is going to prevent very many serious injuries. But would you agree with …
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Questions to the First Minister
… otherwise be caught up in the road traffic accidents, which will not happen when people are travelling at 20 mph that do happen when people travel at 30 mph. That is the purpose of it. That is why …
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, a monitoring framework for 20 mph zones will be published by the end of September. This will set out the key performance indicators. One of these will be vehicle journey times and journey time variation on main …
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Questions to the First Minister
… What steps is the Welsh Government taking to monitor the impact of default 20 mph speed limits on journey times? OQ59941
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… the taxpayer by reducing the burdens on the NHS and the economy through lost days at work. The 20 mph default with exceptions, which the Conservatives now opportunistically oppose, will save up to 100 lives in the first …