Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 7 May 2019.
Well, I thank John Griffiths, of course, for that. He's right, the task and finish group has a very important part to play, because it brings local authorities around the table with the Welsh Government to look at the practical ways in which we can make this happen. There are a whole series of advantages, including all the ones that the Member has mentioned, including the better air quality that you get through slower traffic speeds. In the jargon, Llywydd, the issues that John Griffiths has pointed to are talked of as 'community severance', the fact that fast-moving traffic through a community breaks one part of the community up from another, both geographically—but we know that those impacts fall differentially on people, whether it is older people, whether it's children, whether it's people without cars and so on, and so, 20 mph zones allow a reduction in that community severance, and that's another really important social benefit that comes from the policy.