The Baroness Hayman of Ullock | |||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 9 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Office established | ||||||||||||||||||
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Member of the House of Lords | |||||||||||||||||||
Life peerage 9 September 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Member of Parliament for Workington | |||||||||||||||||||
In office 7 May 2015 – 6 November 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Tony Cunningham | ||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Mark Jenkinson | ||||||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Susan Mary Bentley 28 July 1962 Upper Bucklebury, Berkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Ross Hayman (m. 1997) | ||||||||||||||||||
Children | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Residence(s) | Ullock, Cumbria | ||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Anglia Ruskin University | ||||||||||||||||||
Susan Mary Hayman, Baroness Hayman of Ullock (née Bentley; born 28 July 1962) 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.[1][2] A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 2015 to 2019. 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.
She 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.