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Simon Danczuk is a former MP for Rochdale.

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Former Labour MP for Rochdale

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 3 May 2017 — Dissolved for election

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @SimonDanczuk
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Simon Danczuk campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Communities and Local Government
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Justice
• Work and Pensions
• Education
• Kashmir
• Bangladesh
• Children: Day Care
• Schools: Sports
• Social Security

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee ( 2 Nov 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Paul Rowen
• 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 Entwisle
• John Fenton
• John Entwisle
• John Fenton

Future MPs in this constituency

• Tony Lloyd
• George Galloway
• Paul Waugh

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (13 out of 15)
• Growth and Infrastructure Bill Committee (9 out of 14)
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill Committee (3 out of 5)
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (15 out of 17)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Public Houses: Closures 21 Mar 2017

  To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the removal of permitted development rights for the conversion or demolition of pubs on trends in pub closures.

• Petition - No. 31 Bus Service to Cheadle from Hanley: Parental Alienation 15 Mar 2017

  I have spent much of my time in this place investigating and exposing allegations of child sexual abuse. Politicians, the media and the state were too slow to highlight such abuse. Parental alienation is another form of child abuse that has gone both unreported and under-discussed. Such abuse is not properly recognised by the United Kingdom Government. While Westminster remains silent on the...

• Petition - No. 31 Bus Service to Cheadle from Hanley: Parental Alienation 15 Mar 2017

  I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and I know that she has good knowledge of these issues from her time before coming to this place. She makes an extremely good point, which adds to the discussion and debate that I hope we will continue to have on this issue. I am sure we would all agree that it is not normal for a child, in a short space of time, to go from loving a parent to seeing...

More of Simon Danczuk’s recent appearances