The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hayman GBE
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Baroness Hayman's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hayman GBE. Her name is Helene Valerie Hayman, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Daily attendance allowance
£5,565
15 days attended across 1 published month
Travel claims
£294
Attendance £294
Total claimed
£5,859
Source: House of Lords Finance Office monthly publications, refreshed on the 5th of each month.
Ministerial activity
Records on file
118
117 meetings ·
0 hospitality ·
0 gifts ·
1 overseas trip
· 2024-07-01 → 2025-12-31
Total overseas travel cost
£3,570
Recent meetings · latest 20 of 117
| Date | Met with | Purpose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-09 | Vet Meds Working Group | Meeting where the Veterinary Medicines Working Group is convened in order to discuss vet meds, the supply in Northern and the grace period. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-12-03 | Danielle Duffield - Labour Animal Welfare Society | This was a political meeting to discuss animal welfare which is part of Baroness Hayman's ministerial portfolio | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-28 | Robin Swann MLA and Robbie Butler MLA | Discussions around veterinary medicines and the supply to Northern Ireland, as well as what was and wasnt within the scope of the SPS agreement. Discussions around market surveillance and that VMD would be monitoring this | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-28 | Stuart Anderson (Northern Irleand Business Brexit Working Group) | Discussions around Businesses concerns around the SPS agreement, and uncertainty around it. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-26 | RUMA webinar | Baroness Hayman made a speech on this webinar to make a speech to address AMR being one of the most pressing health challenges and to commend the UK livestock sectors for their ongoign commitment | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-18 | Hilary Cottam | Discussions around Uplands communities and Defra's enagement. Discussions on strategic considerations such as: community led approaches, shared goals, the challeneges of depending on tourism | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-18 | Natural England | Discussions surrounded Natural England's strategy and how focus was shifting to anture recovery rather than just nature protection, nature for health and wellbeing and national security. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-18 | Animal Health & Welfare Board for England | Meeting to update the Minister on the bioindustrial cluster launch with key aspects being biofuels, food, pharmaceuticals which multiple government departments are involved in. Discussions also aroudn key issues like sheep dip and how manufacturers are exploring safer production methods for long-term risk reduction as well as the animal health and welfare pathway being successful and cost effective. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-18 | Susan Jebb (Food Standards Agency) | Discussions on SPS preparation and engagement, as well as data sharing, as well as biosecurity and borders | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-18 | South West Local Nature Partnership meeting | Baroness Hayman briefly attended South West Nature Partnerships regualr online meeting to discuss nature policy and the government's work in this area, including landscape recovery schemes. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-12 | Tenant Farmers Association | Meeting with both peers and the Tenant Farmers Association to discuss agricultural tenancies and how the Law Commission is reviewing these. Also, discussions around the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-11-04 | The Open Spaces Society | Discussions on the importance of Common land and the Commons Act, also discussed access to nature and progress within this area. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-10-16 | Boehringer Ingelheim ltd | Meeting to discuss the vet med supply in Northern Ireland and preparation for the end of the grace period. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-10-16 | Dogs Trust | Meeting to discuss third party liability insurance, the data on the number of claims as well as discussing funding | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-10-15 | Veterinary Medicines Working Group | Meeting where the Veterinary Medicines Working Group is convened in order to discuss vet meds, the supply in Northern and the grace period. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-09-24 | National Federation of Fisherman's Organisations & Shellfish Association of Great Britain | Discussion around Welfare at the time of killing and industry's current concerns in this policy area. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-09-18 | Jonatahan Statham | Discussions around the animal health and welfare board for england's ambition that industry and government can align to achieve more than industry or government can separately. Discussions around how this has happened in the past, several examples of successful engagement between gov and farmers | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-09-11 | Elanco | Discussions aroudn the veterinary medicines supply in Northern Ireland, Elanco gave feedback on how they have found working with VMD, and how the government can best support them with this issue. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-09-11 | MSD Animal Health | Discussions aroudn the veterinary medicines supply in Northern Ireland and how the Government can best support businesses moving forward | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
| 2025-09-11 | Zoetis | Discussions around the veterinary medicine supply in Northern Ireland, Zoetis' preparation in the lead up to the grace period, Zoetis raised their regular engagement with the Veterinary Medicines Directorate and Baroness Haayman encouraged this engagement to continue. | department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs |
Recent overseas travel
| Dates | Destination | Purpose | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-14 → 2025-05-19 |
Kathmandu; Nepal
Scheduled flight
|
Attended Global Dialogue Forum chaired by the Prime Minister of Nepal, to represent Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Minister. To discuss Climate Change , Mountains and the Future of Humanity. The aim of the visit was to demonstrate the UK Government's commitment to the global climate and nature agenda. | £3,570 |
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage:
HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial
Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.
Lords votes · 2026
189 divisions
8 Content(4.2%)
42 Not-Content(22.2%)
139 didn't vote(73.5%)
2026-07-21
Not-Content
173–234
Not-Content
2026-07-13
Not-Content
158–239
Not-Content
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter. I will not repeat what she said, except to say how well chaired we were as a committee and to give my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton. I thank Judith Br
2026-09-15
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for the clarity with which he has introduced these amendments. I am even more grateful to him for the very great care and attention that he and his team of officials gave to the concerns that were raised
2026-09-09
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, and will speak to her amendments and my own on this subject in a moment. But first I express my gratitude for the time and effort that the Minister, his colleagues and all the Bill team
2026-09-07
Jackdaw and Rosebank Oil and Gas Fields
My Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness back to her position on the Front Bench. Does she agree that a major issue underlying the decisions—which I know she cannot talk about—is the widespread concern about the cost of energy in this country? Does she fur
2026-07-14
State of Climate and Nature
I am going to ask a question in just a minute or two. We have some very difficult decisions to make on issues such as the North Sea, employment, how we get the new skills in, how we get the modular reactors in, what the pace of change is and how we make
2026-07-14
State of Climate and Nature
My Lords, I welcome the Statement, and I very much agree with the noble Earl, Lord Russell, on much of what he said about the issues that face us. We have some enormously difficult issues to face. We have seen some of the immediate ones in in our hospita
2026-07-14
State of Climate and Nature
My question to the Minister is this: does he share my concern that, instead of pooling our joint knowledge and energy into solving those problems when faced with a global crisis, we seem to be creating a more and more polarised and unproductive debate on
My Lords, the Minister is obviously correct that we really do need to step back from this divisive and completely unsubstantiated move away from the consensus on the need to do something about the changes in the climate we are seeing around us day in, da
2026-06-29
Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Teverson. I agree very much with the final point that he made. I find many things depressing at the moment in reactions to issues of climate change, but one of them is the lack of enthusiasm about
2026-06-29
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, and to say that I broadly support the action that she is suggesting in Amendment 83B. Organised environmental crime, including illegal deforestation and wildlife crime, is increasingl
2026-06-29
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
I hear what the noble Lord says, but that terrible leaden phrase “in due course” was used. He says that there is a way of looking at this in the context of many other issues. Can he give me a little bit of comfort? We are one year into the consultation.
2026-06-08
Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, unlike many noble Lords who will contribute to today’s debate, I have no direct experience of working in the financial services sector, although I suspect I might even apply for associate membership of the club of Members of your Lordships’ Hou
My Lords—
I give way to the noble Lord, Lord Grocott.
2026-05-20
Self-employed: Paternity Leave
My Lords, the Minister is of course right that there are complexities, and the review will have to look at all of those. However, there is the very uncomplex issue of the right of self-employed men to some sort of paternity leave. It would be reassuring
2026-05-19
El Niño: Impact
My Lords, returning to the debate we had about adaptation to climate change, would the Minister agree with me that, as well as having the plans in place for how we respond to an immediate emergency, we have to look at the longer term? This has happened
2026-05-18
Local Government Pension Fund
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, made valiant attempts to provide clarity on the issue of fiduciary duty and systemic risk during the passage of the Pension Schemes Bill. She was defeated by the combined opposition, for reasons I still do not
2026-04-24
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, it is an absolute privilege to follow the very moving and focused speech of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Prentis. Perhaps the one good thing about the last year that has been a real revelation, and something that I respect enormously, i
2026-04-22
Low-carbon Heat Networks
My Lords, I declare an interest as a director of Peers for the Planet. Like others, I welcome the publication of the Warm Homes Plan and the increased target for the initiation of low-carbon heat networks. But I ask the Minister: what plans do the Govern
2026-03-26
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I will say a word or two at this stage about government Amendment 4, because I understand it relates to Amendment 156, which the Minister moved on Monday. That Amendment 156 had wide Cross-Bench support, coming as it did after an amendment in t
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment. Given the quality of the speeches that have explained exactly what it would do and its very limited but important purpose—simply to allow the Government to have a proper handle on the data and a proper un
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
Tempting though it is to reinitiate the earlier debate, I will not move Amendment 167.
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, when I came into the Chamber today, a Cross-Bench colleague congratulated me on the way in which my amendment has been handled; it is an absolutely perfect example of how the House of Lords should operate. We are all very aware, I think, that s
2026-03-23
Pension Schemes Bill
2026-03-23
Onshore Wind Farms
My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Peers for the Planet. Given what the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, said, in asking this Question, about the increased productivity of onshore wind when it is a replacement for existing infrastructure, is it n
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Register of Interests · 1 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 4: Sponsorship
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The member receives research assistance from Peers for the Planet Ltd in her role as a director (formerly Chair) of the Peers for the Planet parliamentary group
registered 2020-01-15 · amended 2025-05-15
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Party history
2011-09-05 → present
Crossbench
current
2006-07-05 → 2011-09-04
Non-affiliated
1996-01-02 → 2006-07-04
Labour
Government posts
1999-07-29 → 2001-06-09
Minister of State (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
1998-07-28 → 1999-07-29
Minister (Department of Health)
1997-05-06 → 1998-07-28
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions)
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2003-12-03 → 2006-11-08
Liaison Committee (Lords)
2004-11-30 → 2005-04-07
Committee on the Assisted Dying for the terminally ill Bill
2004-12-01 → 2006-11-08
Constitution Committee
2006-11-23 → 2011-09-05
House Committee (Lords)
2006-11-27 → 2011-09-05
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2025-12-18 → present
Retirement and Participation Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
haymanh@parliament.uk
020 7219 5083 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the
primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
4 bills
4 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onshore Wind Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 3rd reading | 2021-06-08 | |
| Contracts for Difference and Onshore Wind Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2020-01-30 | |
| House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2014-06-05 | |
| House of Lords Reform Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2013-05-15 |
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.