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.

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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.

Date	Question	Their vote	Result
14 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 49B	No vote	297–168
14 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 43B	No vote	304–68
14 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 32	No vote	371–98
13 May 2025	Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit: Government amendment	No vote	321–102
13 May 2025	Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit	No vote	104–402
12 May 2025	Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Third Reading	No vote	316–95
12 May 2025	Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21	No vote	87–404
12 May 2025	Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 18	No vote	94–315
12 May 2025	Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 14	No vote	98–402
12 May 2025	Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 3	No vote	90–318
7 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21	No vote	97–363
7 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19	No vote	160–294
7 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2	No vote	88–287
7 May 2025	Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1	No vote	76–295
30 Apr 2025	Sentencing Guidelines Third Reading	No vote	214–3
30 Apr 2025	Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 4	No vote	88–226
30 Apr 2025	Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 3	No vote	86–222
29 Apr 2025	Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11	No vote	85–238
29 Apr 2025	Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21	No vote	95–257
29 Apr 2025	Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10	No vote	101–258
29 Apr 2025	Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1	No vote	73–255
28 Apr 2025	Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Second Reading	No vote	342–70
28 Apr 2025	Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading	No vote	74–337
25 Apr 2025	Closure motion	No vote	12–50
25 Apr 2025	Sit in private	No vote	1–73

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

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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.

Accepted	Recipient	Donor	Type	Value
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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