Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Biography
Baroness Hayman of Ullock was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 22 July 2026.
She previously held the same role with responsibility for biosecurity and animal welfare between 9 July 2024 and 22 July 2026.
She was shadow spokesperson for Defra in the Lords between October 2020 and July 2024, as well as Shadow Spokesperson for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government from December 2021 to October 2023.
In the Commons, Baroness Hayman served as shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019. She was elected as MP for Workington in 2015, where she was the first female MP to represent a constituency in Cumbria.
Baroness Hayman was raised to the Peerage in July 2020.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She has specific responsibilities for:
- trade
- EU and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement
- Northern Ireland and Windsor Framework
- animal welfare (companion and wild animals)
- biosecurity
- borders
- veterinary reform
- pesticides
- corporate services
- statutory instrument programme oversight
- sponsorship of the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)