Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman

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Welwyn and Hatfield
In office
10 October 1974 – 7 April 1979
Preceded byLord Balniel
Succeeded byChristopher Murphy
Personal details
Born
Helene Valerie Middleweek

(1949-03-26) 26 March 1949 (age 75)
Political partyCrossbench
Other political
affiliations		Labour (until 2006)
Spouse
Martin Heathcote Hayman
​
​
(m. 1974)​
Children4
Committees
Procedure Committee (2006–11)
House Committee
(2006–11)

Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman,

PC (née Middleweek; born 26 March 1949) is a British politician who was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party she was a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979. When she became an MP at age 25, she was the youngest MP of the 1974–79 Parliament. Hayman became a life peer
in 1996.

Outside politics, she has been involved in health issues, serving on medical ethics committees and the governing bodies of bodies in the National Health Service and health charities. In 2006, she won the inaugural election for the newly created position of Lord Speaker.[1]

Early life, education and early career

The daughter of Maurice (a dentist) and Maude Middleweek, Hayman attended

Social Services Department at the London Borough of Camden from 1971 to 74, when she was named Deputy Director of the National Council for One-Parent Families.[2]

Personal life

She married Martin Heathcote Hayman (born 20 December 1942) in 1974; they have four sons.[2]

Political career

She participated on William F. Buckley's Firing Line television programs in January 1972 as a member of a panel discussing "The Irish Problem" and featuring then-MP Bernadette Devlin McAliskey,[3] and on 24 July 1973 in an episode discussing whether the Apollo program had been worth it,[4] and again on the 20 August 1973 episode with Malcolm Muggeridge on the theme "Has America Had It?".[5] In February 1973 she was one of three commenters on an episode of Firing Line which featured Germaine Greer.

She contested the

Welwyn and Hatfield in the October 1974 general election. On her election, she was the youngest member of the House of Commons, remaining the "Baby of the House" until the by-election victory of Andrew MacKay in 1977. She was the first woman to breastfeed at Westminster. She lost her seat, a marginal, to the Conservative Christopher Murphy at the 1979 general election
.

She was a member of the Bloomsbury Health Authority (later Bloomsbury and Islington Health Authority) from 1985 to 1992, and its Vice-Chair from 1988 onwards.[2] She served on the ethics committees of the

NHS Trust
.

Hayman was made a

Department of Health, before being appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in July 1999.[7]

She became a member of the

Privy Council in 2001, but left political office the same year to become chairman of Cancer Research UK (2001–2005). She became chair of the Human Tissue Authority in 2005. She was a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2002–2006) and of the Tropical Health and Education Trust (2005–2006). She was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in 2005–2006. She was a member of the Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, 2004–2005, and of the Lords Constitution Committee, 2005–2006.[2]

Lord Speaker

In May 2006, after the position of

Lord McNally, the Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Lords, called her the "Julie Andrews of British politics". Like the Speaker in the House of Commons, but unlike the Lord Chancellor who was also a judge and a government minister, the Lord Speaker resigns party membership and outside interests to concentrate on being an impartial presiding officer. [citation needed
]

On 2 March 2011, Hayman gave a lecture to the Mile End Group in the Attlee Suite of Portcullis House. This was the third in a lecture series to commemorate the Parliament Act 1911.[9] On 9 May 2011, Hayman announced that she would not seek re-election for a second term as Lord Speaker;[10] her successor was Baroness D'Souza.[11]

Honours and awards

See also

  • List of residents of Wolverhampton

References

  1. ^ "Hayman chosen to be Lords speaker". BBC News. 4 July 2006. Retrieved 4 July 2006.
  2. ^ a b c d Helene Hayman profile at Who's Who 2009, A & C Black.
  3. ^ Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. (26 January 2017), Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Irish Problem, Episode S0041, Recorded on March 25, 1972. Guest: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, archived from the original on 12 December 2021, retrieved 3 June 2018
  4. ^ Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Was It Worth It?, retrieved 10 September 2023
  5. Hoover Institute
    , January 27th, 2017.
  6. ^ "No. 54269". The London Gazette. 5 January 1996. p. 267.
  7. ^ DOD Parliamentary Companion online Archived 8 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Lord Speaker election results" (PDF). Retrieved 4 July 2006.
  9. ^ Hayman, Helene (2 March 2011). "1911 Parliament Act and the House of Lords". Mile End Group. Queen Mary University of London. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. (Transcript of Hayman's speech)
  10. ^ "Lord Speakership Election 2011 - Baroness Hayman's Announcement". Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  11. ^ "Amendments Made on 3 May 2011 to the Standing Orders for Public Business" (PDF). The Stationery Office, Ltd. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
  12. ^ "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 6.
  13. ^ "New Year honours list". The Guardian. London. 31 December 2011.
  14. ^ "Hayman received a copy of the key of the City of Tirana, Albania". Archived from the original on 6 April 2012.

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Preceded by
Welwyn and Hatfield
October 1974 – 1979
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
The Lord Falconer of Thoroton
as Lord Chancellor 		Lord Speaker
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