Mark Drakeford defended the controversial new law to the Welsh Affairs Committee.
The First Minister has said he does not believe fears over emergency response times due to the Welsh Government’s 20mph law will materialise.
A petition against the roll-out of the law, on the Welsh Parliament’s petitions page, has now been signed by more than 462,400 people. “The Welsh Government will take the petition seriously and look to respond to it when that happens, by which time we will have had six months or more of experience of the new regime and I think that will help us in responding to the points that are made.”He responded that local authorities do not have an “unfettered right to disregard the law” and had to act within the parameters of the legislation.
Mr Drakeford said local authorities may want to “look again” at whether their initial judgments were correct, adding that “there may be some fine-tuning and adjustments to the designations of individual roads”. But Mr Drakeford said: “There are some individual voices in some services that have expressed concern. The services themselves have not and of course we work very closely with them.
Mr Drakeford’s appearance at the committee was his fourth this parliament. He previously appeared in March 2021, March 2022 and November 2022.
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