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|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name = Dame Rosie Winterton
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|MP|size=100%}}
|image = Rosie Winterton OfficialPortrait.jpg
|office = [[Chairman of Ways and Means|Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]]
|term_start = 28 June 2017
|term_end =
|1blankname = Speaker
|1namedata = [[John Bercow]]
|predecessor = [[Natascha Engel]]
|successor =
|office1 = [[Chief Whip|Shadow Chief Whip]] of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]
|leader1 = [[EdEdward Miliband]]<br>[[Harriet Harman]] {{small|(Acting)}}<br>[[Jeremy Corbyn]]
|term_start1 = 7 October 2010
|term_end1 = 6 October 2016
|predecessor1 = [[NickNicholas Brown]]
|successor1 = [[NickNicholas Brown]]
|office2 = [[Shadow Leader of the House of Commons]]
|leader2 = [[Harriet Harman]] {{small|(Acting)}}<br>[[EdEdward Miliband]]
|term_start2 = 12 May 2010
|term_end2 = 7 October 2010
|predecessor2 = [[Sir George Young, 6th Baronet|George Young]]
|successor2 = [[Hilary Benn]]
|office3 = [[Department for Communities and Local Government|Minister of State for Local Government]]
|primeminister3 = [[Gordon Brown]]
|term_start3 = 5 June 2009
|term_end3 = 11 May 2010
|predecessor3 = [[John Healey (politician)|John Healey]]
|successor3 = [[Grant Shapps]]
|office4 = [[Department for Work and Pensions|Minister of State for Work and Pensions]]
|primeminister4 = [[Gordon Brown]]
|term_start4 = 24 January 2008
|term_end4 = 5 June 2009
|predecessor4 = [[Mike O'Brien (British politician)|Mike O'Brien]]
|successor4 = [[Angela Eagle]]
|office5 = [[Regional minister|Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber]]
|primeminister5 = [[Gordon Brown]]
|term_start5 = 24 January 2008
|term_end5 = 11 May 2010
|predecessor5 = [[Caroline Flint]]
|successor5 = Position abolished
|office6 = [[Minister of State for Transport]]
|primeminister6 = [[Gordon Brown]]
|term_start6 = 28 July 2007
|term_end6 = 3 October 2008
|predecessor6 = [[Stephen Ladyman]]
|successor6 = [[Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis|The Lord Adonis]]
|office7 = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]]<br>for [[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Doncaster Central]]
|term_start7 = 1 May 1997
|term_end7 =
|predecessor7 = [[Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster|Harold Walker]]
|successor7 =
|majority7 = 10,131 (23.5%)
|birth_name = Rosalie Winterton
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|8|10|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Leicester]], England
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Hull]]
|website = {{url|www.rosiewinterton.co.uk|Official}}
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'''Dame Rosalie Winterton''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE}} (born 10 August 1958) is a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician in the United Kingdom. She was first elected as the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Doncaster Central]] in [[United Kingdom general election, 1997|1997]]. Since June 2017, Winterton has served as [[Chairman of Ways and Means|Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]]. She served under [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Gordon Brown]] as the [[Department for Work and Pensions|Minister for Work and Pensions]] from 2008 to 2009, and the [[Department for Communities and Local Government|Minister for Local Government]] from 2009 to 2010. She later entered the [[Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40434901|title=Labour's Rosie Winterton elected as deputy Commons speaker|date=28 June 2017|publisher=|accessdate=28 June 2017|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/jun/28/pmqs-may-corbyn-queens-speech-oliver-letwin-tory-and-cameron-policy-guru-says-taxes-should-go-up-to-fund-better-public-services-politics-live?page=with:block-5953b91ee4b0a8c0ebbeaf44#block-5953b91ee4b0a8c0ebbeaf44|title=Commons rejects Labour's amendment to Queen's speech - as it happened|first1=Andrew|last1=Sparrow|first2=Kevin|last2=Rawlinson|date=28 June 2017|publisher=|accessdate=28 June 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>
'''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.
==Early life==
Educated at St. Mary's (now [[Hill House School, Doncaster]]), [[Ackworth School]] (an independent school) and Doncaster Grammar School on Thorne Road{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} and then reading for a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in History at the [[University of Hull]]<ref name="DHbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/AboutUs/MinistersAndDepartmentLeaders/MinisterOverview/MinistersBiography/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4110148&chk=HfXq6M|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205125828/http://www.dh.gov.uk/AboutUs/MinistersAndDepartmentLeaders/MinisterOverview/MinistersBiography/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4110148&chk=HfXq6M|archivedate=5 February 2007|title=Rt Hon Rosie Winterton MP : The Department of Health - About us: Ministers and department leaders|date=5 February 2007|publisher=|accessdate=6 October 2016}}</ref> in 1979, Winterton first worked as [[John Prescott]]'s Constituency Personal Assistant from 1980 until 1986,<ref name="DHbio"/> 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.<ref name="DHbio"/> After working for four years in the private sector, as Managing Director of [http://www.connectpa.co.uk 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 (UK)|Deputy Leader of the Labour Party]], and Winterton worked as Head of Office for the Deputy Party Leader until 1997.<ref name="DHbio"/>
==Parliamentary career==
Winterton became an [[Member of Parliament|MP]] in the [[United Kingdom general election, 1997|1997 election]], serving the safe [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] seat of [[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Doncaster Central]] constituency with a vote share exceeding 50% in each general election until in 2010, where her vote share fell to 39.7%.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} 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 [[British Department of Health|Department for Health]] in June 2003; in January 2006 her responsibilities were changed to Health Services,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Rosie_Winterton&mpc=Doncaster+Central |title=Voting Record - Rosie Winterton MP, Doncaster Central (10648) |publisher=The Public Whip |date= |accessdate=19 July 2016}}</ref> 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 [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]],<ref>[http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page9749.asp Norman Reginald appointed to the Privy Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925231600/http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page9749.asp |date=25 September 2006 }} Prime Minister's Office, 27 June 2006 (Archived)</ref> 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]].<ref>[http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page12240.asp Her Majesty's Government] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108051737/http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page12240.asp |date=8 January 2009 }} 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. ▼
Winterton was caught up in the row over MPs' expenses when it was claimed she used taxpayers' cash to soundproof the bedroom of her south London flat.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5402890/MPs-expenses-Rosie-Winterton-claimed-for-soundproofing-bedroom.html|title=MPs' expenses: Rosie Winterton claimed for soundproofing bedroom|work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London|first=Holly|last=Watt|date=29 May 2009|accessdate=20 July 2010}}</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. 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/10/nick-brown-appointed-chief-whip-jeremy-corbyn-begins-shadow-cabinet|title=Nick Brown appointed chief whip as Jeremy Corbyn begins shadow cabinet reshuffle|publisher=|accessdate=6 October 2016}}</ref>
In June 2017 Winterton was elected to serve as [[Chairman of Ways and Means|Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40434901|title=Labour's Rosie Winterton elected as deputy Commons speaker|date=28 June 2017|publisher=BBC News|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Honours==
She was appointed [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) in the [[2016 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61450 |supp=y|page=N8|date=30 December 2015}}</ref>
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▲In June 2007, she was appointed Minister of State at the [[Department for Transport ]] by the new Prime Minister, [[Gordon Brown ]]. <ref>[http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page12240.asp Her Majesty's Government] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108051737/http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page12240.asp |date=8 January 2009 }} 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.
==External links==
* [http://www.rosiewinterton.co.uk Rosie Winterton MP] ''official constituency website''
*{{UK MP links| parliament = rosie-winterton/390 | hansard = ms-rosie-winterton | hansardcurr = 4653 | guardian = 5627/rosie-winterton | publicwhip = Rosie_Winterton | theywork = rosie_winterton | record = Rosie-Winterton/Doncaster-Central/339 | bbc = 25253.stm | journalisted = }}
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.
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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.
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