Official portrait of John Finucane

John Finucane

Sinn Féin MP for Belfast North, since 12 December 2019

John Finucane is the Sinn Féin MP for Belfast North, and has been an MP continually since 12 December 2019.

Scorecard

0.0% Attendance Sinn Féin MPs do not take their seats, by declared party policy — this figure is not a measure of attendance
0 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
575 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
0 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Sinn Féin MPs
6 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
0 Debates spoken in 0 written questions tabled

Not ranked. Sinn Féin MPs stand on a declared policy of not taking their seats at Westminster, and their voters elect them knowing it. Counting that as absenteeism would be a category error, so they are excluded from the ranking.

Voting record

575 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
2 Jul 2025 Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2025 deferred division No vote 333–168
2 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 deferred division No vote 338–79
1 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Second Reading No vote 335–260
1 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Reasoned Amendment at Second Reading No vote 149–328
30 Jun 2025 Draft Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025 No vote 315–4
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading No vote 314–291
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 94 No vote 274–224
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 77 No vote 275–209
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 12 No vote 223–269
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 24 No vote 213–266
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 16 No vote 208–261
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill: Third Reading No vote 312–95
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 130 No vote 178–313
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 121 No vote 114–310
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 88 No vote 178–313
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43 No vote 147–305
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 No vote 102–390
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 106 No vote 117–379
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No vote 379–137
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 160 No vote 89–428
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No vote 189–328
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 175 No vote 184–336
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 174 No vote 194–335
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 2 No vote 259–216
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 1 No vote 230–256

Declared financial interests

Quoted in full from the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Entries where the largest figure is £5,000 or more are marked. A declaration is not a wrongdoing — the register exists precisely so that these things are visible.

1. Employment and earnings

Role, work or services: Director
Payer: Finucane Toner Ltd (Solicitors), 76-78 Castle St, Belfast BT1 1HD

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

Remuneration: £4,672 a month
From: 1 January 2020.
Hours: 80 hrs a month (between 40 and 80 hours a month)
(Registered 7 January 2020; updated 8 July 2020)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: Nafarroako Torturatuen Sarea Elkartea (Association of Torture Victims of Navarre)
Address of donor: Calle Amaya 2C 31002 Pamplona-Navarra (Spain)
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£275.61), accommodation (£119.43) and meals (£73.15), value £468.19
Destination of visit: Spain
Dates of visit: 6 November 2025 to 7 November 2025
Purpose of visit: Panellist at the the International Conference of the Association, titled: TORTURE. Impunity: guarantees for reparation and non-repetition
(Registered 1 December 2025)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

Name of donor: (1) Friends of Sinn Féin USA (2) Friends of Sinn Féin Canada
Address of donor: (1) Friends of Sinn Féin USA 1212 Floor 5, Avenue of the Americas, New York. USA (2) Friends of Sinn Féin Canada 466 Dupont Street, Toronto, Ontario. M5R 1W6
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) Flights (£1,651.70) and accommodation in San Francisco (£1,433.65), value £3,085.35 (2) Flights (£235.43) and accommodation in Vancouver (£639.02), value £874.45
Destination of visit: United States and Canada
Dates of visit: 16 September 2025 to 21 September 2025
Purpose of visit: The trip was to brief Irish citizens and the wider diaspora on political developments and the potential for Irish Unity.
(Registered 24 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

6. Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000 and where indicated, the portfolio provides a rental income of over £10,000 a year

Type of land/property: Residential property (house)
Number of properties: 1
Location: Belfast
(Registered 7 January 2020)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital

Name of company or organisation: Finucane Toner Ltd
Nature of business: Solicitors
(Registered 7 January 2020)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

No recorded contributions to debates yet.

Money declared to them

2 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £5,756 in total — from the Electoral Commission's register, which is a separate register from the one above. Money given to their party is not counted here; this is money declared to them.

AcceptedRecipientDonorTypeValue
16 Sep 2025 John Finucane sitting MP Friends of Sinn Féin USA Other Visit £3,085
26 Jan 2025 John Finucane sitting MP Friends of Sinn Féin USA Other Visit £2,671

Where the public money goes — contracts and donations →


Sources: Commons Votes API, Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests, all published by Parliament under the Open Parliament Licence; donations from the Electoral Commission's register. This member's register and debate record were last refreshed 4 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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