John Finucane MP: votes, interests and costs
John Finucane (Sinn Féin) is the MP for Belfast North, in the seat since 12 December 2019.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no government or opposition post and no select committee membership for John Finucane (read 15 October 2026).
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 4 entries for John Finucane: Employment and earnings (1), Visits outside the UK (1), Shareholdings (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). The most recent was registered on . Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Director
- Name of the payer: Finucane Toner Ltd
- Brief description of the payer's business: Solicitors
- Agreement starting 01 January 2020 - £4,672.00
International visit to Spain between 06 November 2025 and 07 November 2025
- Purpose of the visit: Panellist at the the International Conference of the Association, titled: TORTURE. Impunity: guarantees for reparation and non-repetition
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-11-06
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-11-07
Shares in Finucane Toner Ltd
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Finucane Toner Ltd
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Solicitors
Residential in Belfast
- Location of the land or property: Belfast
- A description of the property: house
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 1
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 24 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes John Finucane's 2024-25 staffing spend as £231,945 (budget £250,820). The figure for 2023-24 was £204,081. IPSA lists office spending of £20,139 in the same year. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 | 2023-24 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £231,944.59 | £204,081.17 | £206,890.33 |
| Office costs: spent | £20,138.78 | £19,837.65 | £17,186.55 |
| Accommodation: spent | £7,612.07 | £6,426.20 | £3,400.00 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £16,675.08 | £15,481.77 | £6,777.30 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £29,290 (Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Belfast North BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Constituency Support Manager ×2 (permanent full time), Researcher ×2 (permanent full time), Communications Officer (fixed term full time), Research Officer (permanent full time), Press Officer (permanent part time), Executive Office Manager (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
The Commons Votes API records no division vote by John Finucane since 4 July 2024 (read 15 October 2026).
Written questions
The Written Questions API lists no written question tabled by John Finucane since 4 July 2024 (read 15 October 2026). Ministers do not table written questions to their own departments.
2024 general election
John Finucane won Belfast North at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 17,674 votes (43.7%), a majority of 5,612 over Phillip Brett (Democratic Unionist Party). Result as published: SF hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Belfast North figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.