Rosie Winterton

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Rosalie Winterton, Baroness Winterton of Doncaster, Template:Post-nominals (born 10 August 1958), is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central from 1997 to 2024. She served as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2024. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2024.

Winterton served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as a minister in the Department for Health, then under Gordon Brown as Minister of State for Transport from 2007 to 2008, Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009, and Minister for Local Government from 2009 to 2010. 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,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Winterton stood down at the 2024 general election and was elevated to the House of Lords later that year.

Early lifeEdit

Rosalie Winterton was born on 10 August 1958 to Gordon and Valerie Winterton.<ref name="WW">Template:Who's Who</ref> She was educated at St Mary's (now Hill House School, Doncaster), Ackworth School (an independent school), and Doncaster Grammar School on Thorne Road<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (now Hall Cross Academy). She then gained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in history at the University of Hull,<ref name="WW" /><ref name="DHbio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> graduating in 1979. Winterton worked as John Prescott's constituency personal assistant from 1980 to 1986,<ref name="DHbio"/> and then as a parliamentary officer for Southwark Council for two years to 1988 and subsequently for the Royal College of Nursing for another two years to 1990.<ref name="DHbio"/>

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.<ref name="DHbio"/>

Parliamentary careerEdit

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,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Her Majesty's Government Template:Webarchive Prime Minister's Office (Archived)</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In June 2017, Winterton was elected to serve as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> From 2017 to 2024, she was the only one of the Speaker team to have previously served as a government minister.

On 27 February 2022, Winterton announced her intention to stand down at the 2024 general election.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Expenses scandalEdit

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.

HonoursEdit

In June 2006, she was appointed a member of the Privy Council,<ref>Norman Reginald appointed to the Privy Council Template:Webarchive Prime Minister's Office, 27 June 2006 (Archived)</ref> 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.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

After standing down as an MP, Winterton was nominated for a life peerage in the 2024 Dissolution Honours.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was created Baroness Winterton of Doncaster, of Doncaster in the County of South Yorkshire, on 13 August 2024.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

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