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Road Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, when we introduced the 30 mph limit into villages in Oxfordshire—as, I imagine, was the case in Essex, although I do not know about Essex—every parish council was consulted. They set the limits that were laid down. Each parish council said where the 30 mph signs were to go, and if they wanted 40 or 20, those have been applied. There is variation, and I think that responds to the point made by the noble Earl, Lord Attlee: once you make a national speed limit, it is for each parish council that is consulted to come back with the limits of various speeds throughout the village area.