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Paul Rowen is a former MP for Rochdale.

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Former Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — General election (stood again)

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @PaulRowen

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Work and Pensions
• Transport
• Health
• Home Department
• Communities and Local Government
• Local Government: Pensions
• Teachers: Pensions
• Railways
• Motor Vehicles: Insurance
• Welfare Reform Bill

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Work and Pensions Minister ( 8 Jan 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Whip ( 6 Mar 2008 to 8 Jan 2009)
• Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions ( 5 Jul 2007 to 8 Jan 2009)
• Member, Public Administration Committee (26 Apr 2006 to 11 May 2010)
• Shadow Minister, Transport (19 Oct 2005 to 5 Jul 2007)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Lorna Fitzsimons
• Liz Lynne
• Cyril Smith
• John McCann
• Wentworth Schofield
• Joseph Hale
• Hyacinth Morgan
• William Kelly
• Thomas Jesson
• William Kelly
• John Muir
• Stanley Burgess
• Alfred Law
• Alexander Harvey
• Clement Royds
• Thomas Potter
• Richard Cobden
• Alexander Ramsay
• Edward Miall
• William Sharman-Crawford
• John Fenton
• John Entwisle
• John Fenton
• John Entwisle
• John Fenton

Future MPs in this constituency

• Simon Danczuk
• Tony Lloyd
• George Galloway
• Paul Waugh

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill Committee (6 out of 8)
• Pensions Bill Committee (10 out of 20)
• Concessionary Bus Travel Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• UK Borders Bill Committee (11 out of 14)
• Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Vehicle Registration Marks Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee (10 out of 11)
• Road Safety Bill Committee (6 out of 9)
• Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employment Agencies: EU Law 6 Apr 2010

  To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what guidance his Department plans to provide on (a) the steps an agency must undertake to establish the parameters for equal treatment from an end-user of agency workers under the Agency Worker Regulations 2010, (b) the extent to which measures undertaken by an agency to ascertain the information needed to provide...

• Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employment Agencies: EU Law 6 Apr 2010

  To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has to monitor the effects of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 on the agency worker industry once they have entered into force.

• Written Answers — Health: Viral Diseases 6 Apr 2010

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people who are infected with the xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus.

More of Paul Rowen’s recent appearances