The Right Honourable
Dame Rosie Winterton
DBE MP
Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
Assumed office
28 June 2017
Speaker John Bercow
Preceded by Natascha Engel
Shadow Chief Whip of the House of Commons
In office
7 October 2010 – 6 October 2016
Leader Edward Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by Nicholas Brown
Succeeded by Nicholas Brown
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office
12 May 2010 – 7 October 2010
Leader Harriet Harman (Acting)
Edward Miliband
Preceded by George Young
Succeeded by Hilary Benn
Minister of State for Local Government
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by John Healey
Succeeded by Grant Shapps
Minister of State for Work and 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 July 2007 – 3 October 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Stephen Ladyman
Succeeded by Andrew Adonis
Member of Parliament
for Doncaster Central
Assumed office
1 May 1997
Preceded by Harold Walker
Majority 10,131 (23.5%)
Personal details
Born Rosalie Winterton
(1958-08-10) 10 August 1958 (age 65)
Website Official


Dame Rosalie Winterton, DBE (born 10 August 1958) was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central in 1997. Since June 2017, Winterton has served as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. She served under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009, and the 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, she 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.

Parliamentary career

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 in 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, including responsibility for NHS dentistry. She presided over the introduction of the new NHS dental contract of April 2006. In June 2006, she was appointed to the Privy Council, and she was sworn in on 19 July 2006.

In June 2007, she was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Transport by the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. 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.

In June 2017 Winterton was elected to serve as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.