Lady Helen Olga Hay (born 23 May 1944), better known as Lady Olga Maitland, is a former British Conservative politician.
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The daughter of Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, Maitland was educated at St. Mary and St. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley (today the Abbots Bromley School for Girls) and the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London.
Maitland was a reporter for the Fleet Street News Agency, the Blackheath and District Reporter, and a columnist in the London Sunday Express (1967–1991). In 1983 she was founder and thereafter lady chairman of Families for Defence, and from 1992 was President of the Defence & Security Forum. In 1998 she became a contributor to the Daily Mail.
At the 1987 General Election, Maitland was the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate at Bethnal Green and Stepney, but was unsuccessful. Lady Olga Maitland subsequently became Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam from 1992 to the 1997 General Election that swept the Conservative Party from government when she lost to Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow. She unsuccessfully fought the seat again in 2001. At Westminster Olga Maitland was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committees for Education, Health and Procedures, Northern Ireland, Defence & Foreign Affairs, and was sometime secretary to the Conservative Backbench Committee. She was also a member of the Yugoslav Parliamentary Group. She promoted Private Members Bills in the House of Commons on Prisoner's Return to Custody (1995), and Offensive Weapons (1996), and in 1996-97 was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir John Wheeler, then Minister of State for Northern Ireland at the Northern Ireland Office.
On 19 April 1969, she married Robin William Patrick Hamilton Hay, M.A., LL.B., a Crown Court Recorder. They have two sons and a daughter.
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| Preceded by Neil Macfarlane |
Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam 1992—1997 |
Succeeded by Paul Burstow |