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

Social Media

• @paulwaughmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Education
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Teachers Pensions
• Universal Credit
• Offences against Children: Rochdale
• Personal Independence Payment: Rochdale
• Local Government: Devolution

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

• Welfare Spending 15 Jul 2025

  The shadow Minister makes a point about the state funding children. Does he accept that a million families that have three or more children receive child benefit presently? If he accepts that point, does he, as a father of three—as am I—not accept the principle that those children come first under the child benefit? What is the difference between child benefit and universal credit? Does...

• Welfare Spending 15 Jul 2025

  The Minister is making an important speech with which many Labour Members will agree. She will be aware that 59% of families with more than two children and which are on universal credit are in work. That is far from the feckless parent caricature that we have heard from the Conservatives. More importantly, does she agree that the children should come first, so we should urgently scrap the...

• UK-France Migration: Co-operation 14 Jul 2025

  On Friday, the BBC interviewed an Egyptian economic migrant named Obaida in Calais who said that he had tried and failed four times to cross the channel but, since the Prime Minister’s agreement with President Macron, he was giving up: “I don’t want to go to Britain any more, because they are making it much harder for us. Every time we try, they deflate our boats and remove the...

More of Paul Waugh’s recent appearances

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