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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… best. Let's face facts: the Conservatives have shamelessly u-turned on their previous support for a 20 mph default speed limit in urban and residential areas. We all remember the smiling photographs, as one after the other …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… ban. Councils are able to make roads back up to 30 mph based on exceptions criteria. Rolling out 20 mph as a default speed limit was voted on by the previous Senedd four years ago, by the majority …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… overstated just how much concern that this—and I will use the word, I'm sorry—blanket 20 mph speed limit has created across Wales. This will escalate to new levels, believe me, next week, when people start …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… wrong with the position of standing up for your own communities that have been overdeveloped to say that 20 mph is plenty in those particular communities, as I fought for in 2018. But, to have the blanket ban …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… They'd rather we all use public transport, which is shoddy in Wales under this Government, and this 20 mph scheme is only set to cut back further. But, they're incredibly relaxed about that, because they …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
Item 8 today is the Welsh Conservatives debate on the Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022, and I call on Natasha Asghar to move the motion …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… and Guide Dogs—I know you support those organisations—who voiced their support for the policy change in 20 mph? And let's just look at costings and what this actually means, because, in fact, in terms …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… programme by MS Mabon ap Gwynfor, where we discussed a variety of topics, including the introduction of the 20 mph speed limit across Wales on 17 September. During this interview, I quoted the Welsh Government's own assessment …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Thank you for the question As I said, and I will repeat again, the new 20 mph speed limit is not a blanket limit. It would be great if we heard an acknowledgement of that this afternoon from …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… What assessment has the Minister made of the impact that blanket 20 mph speed limits will have on promoting prosperity and tackling poverty in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire? OQ59881
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… the 20 mph question—question …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… What discussions has the Minister had with the police regarding the implications for them of the forthcoming blanket 20 mph speed limits in Wales? OQ59870
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… What discussions has the Minister had with the Minister for Climate Change regarding the impact of blanket 20 mph speed limits on the work of the police and fire services? OQ59873
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… there are much-needed sensible adjustments to be made, they will be made? This isn’t a blanket 20 mph, despite what the opposition say publicly; this is a sensible policy that will save lives, and the saving …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… cycling and walking. The evidence shows a significant increase in levels of cycling and walking where there is 20 mph—and that’s true in London, in Edinburgh, in Spain too, as well as in our pilot area …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… Roe in St Asaph and many more to the dismal prospect of travelling on straight, clear roads at 20 mph, leading to increased driver frustration and consequential economic issues in my constituency, where I've not spoken …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… the road. In Swansea, as far as I can see, no A-roads will be limited to 20 mph. The only roads you can sometimes travel on at 30 mph are the B-roads, but in Swansea East …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… local level from people who don't want there to be an exception and want it to be 20 mph. So, these are difficult judgments, and, obviously, politics being politics, there are opportunists who want to take advantage …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… Dirprwy Lywydd. From Sunday, most roads with a 30 mph speed limit in Wales will be changing to 20 mph. This is the biggest step change in community safety for a generation. It will save lives, prevent injuries …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… now to item 5, which is a statement from the Deputy Minister for Climate Change on the 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads. I call on the Deputy Minister, Lee Waters …