Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman

The Right Honourable The Baroness Hayman GBE PC
Official portrait, 2023
Lord Speaker of the House of Lords
In office 4 July 2006 – 31 August 2011
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Lord Falconer of Thoroton (as Lord Chancellor)
Succeeded by	The Baroness D'Souza
Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office 29 July 1999 – 7 June 2001
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Lord Donoughue
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
In office 28 July 1998 – 29 July 1999
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Baroness Jay of Paddington
Succeeded by	Gisela Stuart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Roads
In office 6 May 1997 – 28 July 1998
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Viscount Goschen
Succeeded by	The Lord Whitty
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 January 1996 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Welwyn and Hatfield
In office 10 October 1974 – 7 April 1979
Preceded by	Lord Balniel
Succeeded by	Christopher Murphy
Personal details
Born	Helene Valerie Middleweek (1949-03-26) 26 March 1949 (age 75)
Political party	Crossbench
Other political affiliations	Labour (until 2006)
Spouse	Martin Heathcote Hayman ​ ​ (m. 1974)​
Children	4
Committees	Procedure Committee (2006–11) House Committee (2006–11)

Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, GBE, 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]