Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Hayman GBE PC |
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Helene, Lady Hayman, at Westminster Hall, 25 May 2011
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| Lord Speaker | |
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In office 4 July 2006 – 31 August 2011 |
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| Preceded by |
Lord Falconer of Thoroton as Lord Chancellor |
| Succeeded by | Baroness D'Souza |
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Assumed office 2 January 1996 |
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| Nominated by | John Major |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Member of Parliament for Welwyn and Hatfield |
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In office 10 October 1974 – 3 May 1979 |
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| Preceded by | Lord Balniel |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Murphy |
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| Born | 26 March 1949 |
| Political party | Crossbench |
| Other political affiliations |
Labour (until 2006) |
| Spouse(s) | Martin Heathcote Hayman (m. 1974; 4 sons) |
| Committees |
Procedure Committee (2006–11) House Committee (2006–11) |
| Religion | Judaism |
Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman GBE PC (née Middleweek; born 26 March 1949, Wolverhampton) 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, and 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.
The daughter of Maurice (a dentist) and Maude Middleweek, Hayman attended Wolverhampton Girls' High School and read law at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1969; she was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1969. She worked for Shelter from 1969–71, and for the Social Services Department at the London Borough of Camden from 1971–74, when she was named Deputy Director of the National Council for One-Parent Families.
She married Martin Heathcote Hayman (born 20 December 1942) in 1974; they have four sons.
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