About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Paul Waugh) represents you, and all of the people who live in Rochdale, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Rochdale

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Home Office
• Teachers Pensions
• Local Government: Devolution
• Offences against Children: Rochdale

Currently held offices

• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• George Galloway
• Tony Lloyd
• Simon Danczuk
• 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

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (3 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 6 Mar 2025

  Today is, as the Leader of the House mentioned, World Book Day. It is also the day when I announce the winner of my World Book Day competition for the children of Rochdale. Will she join me in congratulating 10-year-old Harry Hodgkiss of Milnrow parish Church of England primary school on his brilliant review of David Walliams’s “The World’s Worst Monsters”, and in thanking local...

• Courts and Tribunals: Sitting Days 5 Mar 2025

  In June 2024, in the dying days of the last Conservative Government and after 14 years of their rule, there emerged a shocking statistic: 60% of rape victims were withdrawing from the court process, mainly because of court delays. Is that not a damning indictment of all Governments who have taken power in this country? What is the Lord Chancellor doing to help reduce the number of rape...

• Jammu and Kashmir: Human Rights — [Dr Rosena Allin-Khan in the Chair] 5 Mar 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn (Sarah Smith) for securing this vital and overdue debate. As has been said already, while the world rightly focuses on the plight of the Palestinian people and the UN resolutions frequently broken by Israel, all too often there is too little attention on the plight of the Kashmiri...

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