Rosie Winterton

Dame **Rosalie "Rosie" Winterton**  (born 10 August 1958) is a British Labour Party politician.

She has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central since 1997. In June 2017, Winterton became one of three Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.

### In cabinet

She served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Minister in the Department of 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.

These made her the only one of the deputy speakers to have served as a minister in the government.

### Others

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. She served in that post until October 2016. She was elected as one of three deputy speakers of the House of Commons on 28 June 2017. She was re-elected unopposed on 7 January 2020.

On 27 February 2022, Winterton announced that she would not stand at the next UK general election.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable Dame
- **image**: Official portrait of Rosie Winterton MP.jpg
- **office**: Chairman of Ways and Means, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
- **monarch**: Elizabeth II
Charles III
- **1blankname**: Speaker
- **1namedata**: Lindsay Hoyle
- **predecessor**: Eleanor Laing
- **term start**: 8 January 2020
- **office1**: Chairman of Ways and Means, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
- **term start1**: 28 June 2017
- **term end1**: 6 November 2019
- **1blankname1**: Speaker
- **1namedata1**: John Bercow
Lindsay Hoyle
- **predecessor1**: Natascha Engel
- **successor1**: Nigel Evans
- **office2**: Chief Whip, Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons
- **leader2**: Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman
Jeremy Corbyn
- **1blankname2**: Deputy
- **1namedata2**: Alan Campbell (politician), Alan Campbell
- **term start2**: 7 October 2010
- **term end2**: 6 October 2016
- **predecessor2**: Nick Brown
- **successor2**: Nick Brown
- **office3**: Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
- **leader3**: Harriet Harman
Ed Miliband
- **term start3**: 12 May 2010
- **term end3**: 7 October 2010
- **predecessor3**: Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, George Young
- **successor3**: Hilary Benn
- **office4**: Minister for Local Government (United Kingdom), Minister of State for Local Government
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Minister of State for Regional Economic Development and Coordination
- **primeminister4**: Gordon Brown
- **term start4**: 5 June 2009
- **term end4**: 11 May 2010
- **predecessor4**: John Healey (politician), John Healey
- **successor4**: Grant Shapps
- **office5**: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion#List_of_Ministers, Minister of State for Pensions
- **primeminister5**: Gordon Brown
- **term start5**: 24 January 2008
- **term end5**: 5 June 2009
- **predecessor5**: Mike O'Brien (British politician), Mike O'Brien
- **successor5**: Angela Eagle
- **office6**: Regional minister, Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber
- **primeminister6**: Gordon Brown
- **term start6**: 24 January 2008
- **term end6**: 11 May 2010
- **predecessor6**: Caroline Flint
- **successor6**: Position abolished
- **office7**: Minister of State for Transport
- **primeminister7**: Gordon Brown
- **term start7**: 28 June 2007
- **term end7**: 3 October 2008
- **predecessor7**: Stephen Ladyman
- **successor7**: Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, The Lord Adonis
- **office8**: Minister of State for Health (UK), Minister of State for Health Services
- **primeminister8**: Tony Blair
- **term start8**: 13 June 2003
- **term end8**: 28 June 2007
- **predecessor8**: Jacqui Smith
- **successor8**: Ben Bradshaw
- **office9**: Lord Chancellor's Department, Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department
- **primeminister9**: Tony Blair
- **term start9**: 11 June 2001
- **term end9**: 13 June 2003
- **predecessor9**: David Lock
- **successor9**: _Office abolished_
- **office10**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency), Doncaster Central
- **term start10**: 1 May 1997
- **predecessor10**: Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, Harold Walker
- **majority10**: 2,278 (5.5%)
- **birth name**: Rosalie Winterton
- **birth place**: Leicester, England
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour
- **alma mater**: University of Hull
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2022