Alan Haworth, Baron Haworth
Alan Robert Haworth, Baron Haworth was a British Labour politician. He was an official in the party from 1975 to 2004, including serving as Secretary of the Labour Party from 1992 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.
Early life
Alan Haworth grew up in the Blackburn suburb of Revidge, where his family owned a grocery shop, and was educated at St Silas School, Blackburn and Blackburn Technical & Grammar School. He attended the University of St Andrews to study medicine, but left after one year's study. He then studied for a degree in sociology at the Barking Regional College of Technology, from which he graduated in 1971. He then worked from 1973 to 1975 as a registrar at the university.Parliamentary career
Haworth was appointed to the staff of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1975, became Senior Committee Officer in 1985, and served as Secretary of the PLP from 1992 to 2004. He was elevated to the House of Lords on 28 June 2004 as a life peer as Baron Haworth, of Fisherfield in Ross and Cromarty.In December 2009, Haworth was accused by The Times of earning £100,000 in expenses by pretending that his main home was a cottage in Scotland. Following an investigation by Michael Pownall, Clerk of the Parliaments, Haworth was cleared of wrongdoing in February 2010.