The Right Honourable Dame Rosie Winterton | |
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Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Assumed office 8 January 2020 | |
Speaker | Lindsay Hoyle |
Preceded by | Eleanor Laing |
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means | |
In office 28 June 2017 –6 November 2019 | |
Speaker | John Bercow Lindsay Hoyle |
Preceded by | Natascha Engel |
Succeeded by | Nigel Evans |
Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Commons | |
In office 7 October 2010 –6 October 2016 | |
Leader | Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) Jeremy Corbyn |
Deputy | Alan Campbell |
Preceded by | Nick Brown |
Succeeded by | Nick Brown |
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | |
In office 12 May 2010 –7 October 2010 | |
Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | George Young |
Succeeded by | Hilary Benn |
Minister of State for Local Government Minister of State for Regional Economic Development and Coordination | |
In office 5 June 2009 –11 May 2010 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | John Healey |
Succeeded by | Grant Shapps |
Minister of State for Pensions | |
In office 24 January 2008 –5 June 2009 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Mike O'Brien |
Succeeded by | Angela Eagle |
Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber | |
In office 24 January 2008 –11 May 2010 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Caroline Flint |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Minister of State for Transport | |
In office 28 June 2007 –3 October 2008 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Stephen Ladyman |
Succeeded by | The Lord Adonis |
Minister of State for Health Services | |
In office 13 June 2003 –28 June 2007 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Jacqui Smith |
Succeeded by | Ben Bradshaw |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department | |
In office 11 June 2001 –13 June 2003 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | David Lock |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central | |
Assumed office 1 May 1997 | |
Preceded by | Harold Walker |
Majority | 2,278 (5.5%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Rosalie Winterton 10 August 1958 Leicester,England |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Hull |
Website | www |
Dame Rosalie Winterton, DBE (born 10 August 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central since 1997. In June 2017,Winterton became one of three Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.
She served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as a minister in the Department for Health,then under Gordon Brown as the Minister of State for Transport from 2007 to 2008,Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009,and the Minister for Local Government from 2009 to 2010,making her the only one of the current Speaker and Deputy Speakers to have served as a minister in government. [lower-alpha 1] She later entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
In September 2010,Winterton was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip and served in the post until October 2016. She was elected as one of three deputy speakers of the House of Commons on 28 June 2017 and re-elected unopposed on 7 January 2020, [1] [2] On 27 February 2022,Winterton announced she would not contest the next UK general election.
Winterton was educated at St Mary's (now Hill House School,Doncaster),Ackworth School (an independent school) and Doncaster Grammar School on Thorne Road [3] (now Hall Cross Academy). She then read for a BA in history at the University of Hull, [4] which she graduated with in 1979. She first worked as John Prescott's Constituency Personal Assistant from 1980 until 1986, [4] and then Parliamentary Officers,first for Southwark Council for two years until 1988 and then for a further two for the Royal College of Nursing until 1990. [4]
After working for four years in the private sector,as Managing Director of Connect Public Affairs,she returned to politics to assist John Prescott in 1994;Prescott had been elected as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party,and Winterton worked as Head of Office for the Deputy Party Leader until 1997. [4]
Winterton became an MP in the 1997 election,serving the safe Labour seat of Doncaster Central constituency with a vote share exceeding 50% in each general election until 2010,where her vote share fell to 39.7%.
She entered government in 2001,serving as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Lord Chancellor's Department,and became a Minister of State at the Department for Health in June 2003;in January 2006 her responsibilities were changed to Health Services, [5] including responsibility for NHS dentistry. She presided over the introduction of the new NHS dental contract of April 2006.
In June 2007,she was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Transport by the new Prime Minister,Gordon Brown. [6] Winterton was subsequently appointed Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber in addition to her DfT responsibilities on 24 January 2008. She was promoted to Minister of State for Pensions at the Department for Work and Pensions in the October 2008 reshuffle,retaining her Ministerial brief for Yorkshire and the Humber.
In the June 2009 reshuffle,Winterton was moved to Minister of State for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination at the Department for Business,Innovation and Skills and the Department for Communities and Local Government and,in that role,was invited to attend cabinet when her responsibility was on the agenda.
In September 2010,she was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip and served until October 2016,when she was replaced by Nick Brown. [7]
In June 2017,Winterton was elected to serve as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. [8]
She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. [9]
On 27 February 2022,Winterton announced her intention to stand down at the next general election. [10]
Winterton was one of a number of Government Ministers who secretly repaid back some of expenses money which they had wrongly claimed. In the row over MPs' expenses,it was claimed she used taxpayers' cash to soundproof the bedroom of her south London flat. [11] According to The Daily Telegraph ,the minister claimed a total of £86,277 over four years in additional costs allowance –close to the total allowed under Parliament's green book.
In June 2006,she was appointed a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, [12] and she was sworn in on 19 July 2006.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours. [13]
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