Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman

Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, GBE PC (born 26 March 1949 in Wolverhampton as Helene Middle Week ) is a British politician. As a member of the Labour Party from 1974 to 1979 she was Member of the House of Commons. She became a life peer and member of the House of Lords in 1996. From 2006 to 2011 she was Lord Speaker. In addition to the policy they dealt with health issues, belonged to the medical ethics committees and governing bodies of the National Health Service and charity organizations.

Biography

Helene Hayman was born in 1949 as the daughter of Maurice and Maude Middle Week. She attended the Wolverhampton Girls' High School and studied law at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She graduated in 1969 and was the same year President of the Cambridge Union Society. From 1969 to 1971 she worked for the charity Shelter and 1971-1974 for the Social Services Department of the London Borough of Camden. In 1974, she was Deputy Director ( Deputy Director ) of the National Council for One Parent Families.

Membership in the House of Commons

In February 1974, she stepped on to the general election for the constituency of Wolverhampton South West. In the following general election in October 1974, she was elected for the constituency of Welwyn and Hatfield to the House of Commons. If selected, she was the youngest member of the House ( Baby of the House ) until the election of Andrew Mackay 1977. She lost in the general election in 1979 with a tight result her seat to Christopher Murphy, the candidate of the Conservative Party.

More career

Hayman was a founding member and 1979-1985 spokeswoman for the Maternity Alliance. She was from 1985 a member of the Bloomsbury Health Authority and from 1988 to 1992 the Deputy Chairman ( Vice - Chair ). 1991/1992 she was chairman of Bloomsbury and Islington District Health Authority. She was a member from 1982 to 1997 the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1987 to 1997, the Ethics Committee of the University College London and University College Hospital, of which from 1990 to 1997 as Deputy Chairman ( Vice - Chair ). From 1992 to 1997 she was a member of the Board of Directors ( Council) of the University College London and Chair ( Chair ) of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust of.

Membership in the House of Lords

Hayman was appointed Life peer as Baroness Hayman, of Dartmouth Park in the London Borough of Camden on January 2, 1996. Your inaugural speech in the House of Lords held on 17 January 1996. As their political interests are they in their Parliament biography on the website of the House of Lords health and education. From 1996 to 1997 she was the opposition spokesperson on health issues in the House of Lords. After the Labour Party won the general election in 1997, it was from 1997 to 1998 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ( Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State ), Ministry for the Environment, Transport and the Regions ( Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions ) and 1998-1999 Ministry of Health (Department of Health ), before she was appointed in July 1999, Minister of State (Minister of State ), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( Ministry of Agriculture, fisheries and Food ). In 2001 she became a member of the Privy Council. In the same year, she gave up her ministerial position to become president ( chairman ) of Cancer Research UK. It remained so until 2004/2005.

She was a member of the Sonderauschusses the House of Lords ( Lords Select Committee ) at the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (2004/ 2005), and the Lords Constitution Committee ( 2005/2006).

In May 2006, after the Office of the Speaker of the House of Lords from the office of Lord Chancellor was separated by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, she was one of nine candidates for the new role of Lord Speaker. She was nominated as a candidate by Elizabeth Symons and supported by John Walton. Your narrow victory in the election was announced on 4 July 2006 and she became the first Lord Speaker. On her election called Tom McNally, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, they the " Julie Andrews in British politics ." Baroness Haymann did not run for a second term and retired in accordance with the end of their term of office on 31 August 2011 from the post of Lord Speaker from. Her successor was Frances D' Souza, Baroness D' Souza.

More offices

Hayman was Chair ( Chair of Governors ) at the Brookfield School. She was 2002-2004 Chairman ( Chair ) of the Review Committee of Privy Counsellors of the Anti-terrorism Crime and Security Act for. In 2005, she was Chairman ( Chair ) of the Human Tissue Authority. Hayman was a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 2002 to 2006 and the Tropical Health and Education Trust at 2005 until 2006. Likewise 2005-2006 she was. A member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

Honors

In the New Year Honours 2012, she was awarded the Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.

Family

She married in 1974, businessman and bank manager Martin Heathcote Hayman. They have four sons together.