During his time in the House of Commons, he served on the Energy Select Committee (1984–85), the Conservative Party's Aviation Committee (1984–92) and as PPS at the Department for Trade &amp; Industry, including to Michael Howard as the then Minister for Corporate &amp; Consumer Affairs. Hayward was also PPS to Paul Channon, the Secretary of State for Transport, between 1987–89, a period that saw the Lockerbie bombing, Clapham and Kings Cross rail disasters and the Kegworth air crash.