1. Susan Mary Hayman, Baroness Hayman of Ullock is a British politician and life peer who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024.
24 Facts About Sue Hayman
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Sue Hayman served as an Opposition Whip from 2015 to 2016 and Shadow Minister for Flooding and Coastal Communities from 2016 to 2017, then as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020.
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Sue Hayman was a Shadow Spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Opposition Whip from 2020, and a Shadow Spokesperson for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 2021.
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Sue Hayman attended St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, and studied English literature at Anglia Ruskin University.
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Sue Hayman then worked as campaigns and communication manager for MP Mike Foster.
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Sue Hayman worked in public relations as a consultant for Copper Consultancy where she was account director before becoming their head of public affairs.
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Sue Hayman was third on Labour's party list for West Midlands in the 2004 European Parliament election but was not elected as an MEP.
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Sue Hayman stood as a candidate in the 2005 general election for Preseli Pembrokeshire after the incumbent Labour MP, Jackie Lawrence, stood down.
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Sue Hayman was elected to represent Howgate division on Cumbria County Council in 2013, on which she later became vice-chair of the Children's Scrutiny Committee.
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Sue Hayman resigned her seat shortly after her election to Parliament in 2015.
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Sue Hayman was elected as MP for the all women shortlist seat of Workington in the 2015 general election, she became the first female MP to represent a constituency in Cumbria.
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Sue Hayman was an opposition whip from September 2015 to October 2016.
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Sue Hayman campaigned against the closure of Workington's magistrates court.
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Sue Hayman supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.
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Sue Hayman retained her seat in the June 2017 general election with a majority of 3,925.
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However, a complaint sent to the Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons was not investigated because the mailing, to flood victims, was unrelated to the election and Sue Hayman had notified it to Parliament once the election was called.
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Sue Hayman was co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy, and vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Business.
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Sue Hayman supported the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.
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Sue Hayman lost her seat at the 2019 general election to Mark Jenkinson of the Conservatives.
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In July 2020, it was announced that Sue Hayman received a nomination for a peerage.
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Sue Hayman was created Baroness Hayman of Ullock, of Ullock in the County of Cumbria, on 9 September 2020.
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Sue Hayman was appointed as a shadow DEFRA spokesperson and an opposition whip in October 2020, and a shadow DLUHC spokesperson in December 2021.
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Sue Hayman is Vice President of local charity Hospice at Home Cumbria.
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Sue Hayman has been Chair of the Royal School of Church Music from May 2024.