18 Facts About Rosie Winterton

Rosie Winterton served as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2024.

Rosie Winterton became a member of the House of Lords in 2024.

Rosie 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.

Rosie Winterton later entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.

In September 2010, Rosie Winterton was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip and served in the post until October 2016.

Rosie Winterton 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, Winterton stood down at the 2024 general election and was elevated to the House of Lords later that year.

Rosalie Rosie Winterton was born on 10 August 1958 to Gordon and Valerie Rosie Winterton.

Rosie Winterton then gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history at the University of Hull, graduating in 1979.

Rosie Winterton worked as John Prescott's constituency personal assistant from 1980 to 1986, 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.

Rosie Winterton 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.

Rosie Winterton presided over the introduction of the new NHS dental contract of April 2006.

Rosie Winterton was appointed Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber in addition to her DfT responsibilities on 24 January 2008.

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

On 27 February 2022, Rosie Winterton announced her intention to stand down at the 2024 general election.

Rosie Winterton was one of a number of Government Ministers who secretly repaid back some of expenses money which they had wrongly claimed.

Rosie Winterton was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 New Year Honours.

Rosie Winterton was created Baroness Winterton of Doncaster, of Doncaster in the County of South Yorkshire, on 13 August 2024.