 He was elevated to the House of Lords on 28 June 2004 as a life peer taking the title Baron Haworth, of Fisherfield in Ross and Cromarty.In December 2009 Lord Haworth was accused by a newspaper of earning £100,000 in expenses by pretending that his main home was a cottage in Scotland .Following an investigation by the senior accounting officer in the House of Lords - the Clerk of the Parliaments - Lord Haworth was completely cleared of any wrongdoing in February 2010.