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Support for Schools in Rochdale

Videos

25 February 2026

Safe staffing levels for Midwives

Videos

24 February 2026

Health Services in Gaza

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24 February 2026

Engagements

Paul Waugh made a speech in the House of Commons

From this April, Springside special school in Rochdale will open its first ever free breakfast club. That is a big change enabled by this Labour Government, and one that the headteacher, Mrs...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Paul Waugh made a speech in the House of Commons

In Rochdale, we need more midwives to provide the safe staffing levels that our mums-to-be rightly expect, but newly qualified student midwives often find it difficult to find jobs when they...

Maternity Services: Standards

Department of Health and Social Care

Paul Waugh received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve maternity care.

Gaza Healthcare System - [Sir Jeremy Wright in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend rightly makes a passionate case for why we should be doing more to help the healthcare system in Gaza. It is quite clear that the 50 severely ill children from Gaza who were...

Leasehold Reform

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Paul Waugh made a speech in the House of Commons

Far too many homeowners in Rochdale are subject to fleecehold, whereby they are fleeced for estate management company fees in return for little or no service or accountability. The Government are...

Leasehold Reform

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Paul Waugh made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps his Department is taking to reform the leasehold sector.

Business of the House

Commons debates

Last week, I was honoured to attend the annual apprenticeships awards held by Rochdale’s Hopwood Hall college, which highlight all our brilliant local businesses and talent. Will the...

Local Power Plan

Commons debates

Rochdale is the birthplace of the co-operative movement, so we know what happens when local people come together to take back control when there has been a clear market failure. That is one of...

Armed Conflict: Children

Nurseries and Early Years Providers: CCTV

Paul Waugh made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer, not least as a neighbouring colleague. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn (Sarah Smith) for securing this valuable...

Non-league Football

Commons debates

Speaking of clubs that are at the top of their league, Rochdale are at the top of the national league right now. Despite that, we do strongly support the 3UP—and three down—campaign,...

Non-league Football

Commons debates

I bow to my hon. Friend’s preference when it comes to Hartlepool, not least because Rochdale were recently subjected to an awful defeat at the hands of the Pools, and I was there to witness...

Holocaust Memorial Day

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I encourage all Members of the House to take a trip to Srebrenica to see for themselves the mass graves, the cemetery and the museum. It is incredibly moving....

Holocaust Memorial Day

Commons debates

I pay tribute to my hon. Friends the Members for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley) and for Warrington North (Charlotte Nichols) for their powerful and moving testimony. They are a...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Tetrosyl is a Rochdale-based company that has recently used fire and rehire tactics to, in effect, dismiss staff, rehire them with £7,000 a year less in their pay packets and remove their...

Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running - [Christine Jardine in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend the Minister and my hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft (Jess Asato) have both referred to the excellent research by the University of Manchester. One of the most shocking...

UK Bus Manufacturing - [Dr Andrew Murrison in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Mellor, a bus manufacturer in Rochdale, does a superb job of producing the buses that Greater Manchester needs. Andy Burnham was the first in more than...

Business of the House

Commons debates

From the Flying Horse to the Baum, from Vicolo del Vino to the Oxford, from the Spring Inn to the Moorcock, we are really lucky in Rochdale and Littleborough to have some fantastic pubs and bars,...

Sale of Fireworks - [Mark Pritchard in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I thank the hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) for opening this debate. Rochdale has the second highest number of...

Business of the House

Commons debates

The British Bangladeshi community in Rochdale, across the whole north-west, and stretching as far as Scotland and the midlands rely on Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ direct flight from...

Digital ID

Commons debates

Young people in my constituency have long wanted some form of digital ID that allows them to prove their age in a club, pub or shop; it will make their life a lot easier. They are used to using...