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{{Short description|British politician (born 1958)}}
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{{Use British English|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Baroness Winterton of Doncaster
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|PC|size=100%}}
| image = Official portrait of Baroness Winterton of Doncaster crop 2, 2025.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2025
| office = [[Chairman of Ways and Means|Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons]]
| 1blankname = Speaker
| 1namedata = [[John Bercow]]<br>[[Lindsay Hoyle|Sir Lindsay Hoyle]]
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Charles III]]
| primeminister = [[Theresa May]]<br />[[Boris Johnson]]<br/>[[Liz Truss]]<br/>[[Rishi Sunak]]
| term_start = 28 June 2017
| term_end = 30 May 2024
| office1 = [[Chairman of Ways and Means|First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]]
| 1blankname1 = Speaker
| 1namedata1 = [[Lindsay Hoyle|Sir Lindsay Hoyle]]
| predecessor1 = [[Eleanor Laing|Dame Eleanor Laing]]
| successor1 = [[Judith Cummins]]
| term_start1 = 8 January 2020
| term_end1 = 30 May 2024
| office2 = [[Chairman of Ways and Means|Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]]
| term_start2 = 28 June 2017
| term_end2 = 6 November 2019
| 1blankname2 = Speaker
| 1namedata2 = [[John Bercow]] <br /> [[Sir Lindsay Hoyle]]
| predecessor2 = [[Natascha Engel]]
| successor2 = [[Nigel Evans]]
| office4 = [[Minister of State for Local Government]]<br />[[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 = ''Office 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 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 the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lord Temporal]]
| term_start10 = 13 August 2024<br />[[Life peer]]age
| term_end10 =
| parliament11 = United Kingdom
| constituency_MP11 = Doncaster Central
| term_start11 = 1 May 1997
| term_end11 = 30 May 2024
| predecessor11 = [[Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster|Harold Walker]]
| successor11 = [[Sally Jameson]]
| birth_name = Rosalie Winterton
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|8|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Leicester]], England
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Hull]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
}}
'''Rosalie Winterton, Baroness Winterton of Doncaster''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|DBE|PC}} (born 10 August 1958), is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who served as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Doncaster Central]] from 1997 to 2024. She served as a [[Chairman of Ways and Means|Deputy Speaker]] in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|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 and Social Care|Department for Health]], then under [[Gordon Brown]] as [[Department for Transport|Minister of State for Transport]] from 2007 to 2008, [[Department for Work and Pensions|Minister for Work and Pensions]] from 2008 to 2009, and [[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, 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>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40434901|title=Labour's Rosie Winterton elected as deputy Commons speaker|date=28 June 2017|access-date=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|access-date=28 June 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Winterton stood down at the [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]] and was elevated to the [[House of Lords]] later that year.
==Early life==
Rosalie Winterton was born on 10 August 1958 to Gordon and Valerie Winterton.<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who |title=Winterton, Rt Hon. Dame Rosalie, (Rt Hon. Dame Rosie) |year=2020 |id=U40406 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40406}}</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>{{cite web|url=https://www.rosiewinterton.co.uk/rosie-winterton|title=About Rosie|publisher=Rosie Winterton|accessdate=18 October 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018164929/https://www.rosiewinterton.co.uk/rosie-winterton|archivedate=18 October 2019}}</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">{{cite web|url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/AboutUs/MinistersAndDepartmentLeaders/MinisterOverview/MinistersBiography/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4110148&chk=HfXq6M|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205125828/http://www.dh.gov.uk/AboutUs/MinistersAndDepartmentLeaders/MinisterOverview/MinistersBiography/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4110148&chk=HfXq6M|archive-date=5 February 2007|title=Rt Hon Rosie Winterton MP : The Department of Health - About us: Ministers and department leaders|date=5 February 2007|access-date=6 October 2016}}</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 (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 (United Kingdom)|MP]] in the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 election]], serving the safe [[Labour Party (UK)|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 [[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 |access-date=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 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.
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 news|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/10/jeremy-corbyn-rewards-loyalists-confident-reshuffle|title=Jeremy Corbyn rewards loyalists in confident reshuffle|work= [[New Statesman]]|author= Bush, Stephen|date= 6 October 2016|access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref>
In June 2017, Winterton was elected to serve as [[Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40434901|title=Labour's Rosie Winterton elected as deputy Commons speaker|date=28 June 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en-GB}}</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 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-60545765|title=Deputy Speaker Dame Rosie Winterton to step down at next election|date=27 February 2022|work=BBC News|access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref>
==Expenses scandal==
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>{{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|access-date=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.
==Honours==
In June 2006, she was appointed a member of the [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|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.
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>
After standing down as an MP, Winterton was nominated for a [[life peer]]age in the [[2024 Dissolution Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |date=7 August 2024 |issue=64480 |page=15222 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dissolution Peerages 2024 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2024 |access-date=4 July 2024 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Whannel |first=Kate |date=4 July 2024 |title=Theresa May and 'bionic' MP awarded peerages |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84975xgdwlo |work=BBC News |language=en |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref> She was created ''Baroness Winterton of Doncaster, of Doncaster in the County of South Yorkshire'', on 13 August 2024.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=19 August 2024 |issue=64490 |page=15986}}</ref>
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