Belfast South & Mid Down / data
Claire Hanna · Social Democratic and Labour Party · sitting since 12 Dec 2019 · every division, speech and committee appearance.
Since election
2325days
from 12 Dec 2019
Divisions
107
of 504 possible
Attendance
21%
397 absent / paired
Whip alignment
100%
vs party majority
Speeches
341
48 debates
Written Qs
240
238 answered
Committees
1
memberships
Expenses
£303k paid
FY 2024–2025 · 264 claims
Interests
0
Register
A · Overview
Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted — engagement only, not direction.
| Issue | Volume | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 20 | |
| Welfare and Benefits | 18 | |
| Constitution and Democracy | 17 | |
| Employment | 16 | |
| Taxation | 13 | |
| Education | 11 | |
| Universal Credit | 10 | |
| Schools | 10 |
Speech topics
Words spoken, by topic. Source: Hansard.
| Topic | Debates | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Defence | 12 | 3,448 |
| Social Care | 6 | 1,717 |
| Culture Community | 3 | 1,702 |
| Local Government | 3 | 1,628 |
| Other | 3 | 1,293 |
| Economy Jobs | 11 | 1,266 |
| Fiscal Policy | 5 | 547 |
| Cost Of Living | 4 | 483 |
B · Notable divisions
Free votes, rebellions and high-salience whipped votes — the moments that distinguish this MP from the party machine. The full division-by-division record will follow once the per-MP archive is wired.
No notable votes recorded for this MP yet.
C · Speeches
| Date | Contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)I do not think that people want to quibble on numbers, but Ellie Flanagan and Amy Doherty became the 29th and 30th women killed since 2020. The comparable figures for England, for … | 154 |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and ReconciliationOne of the lingering legacies of violence in Northern Ireland is our outrageous and distressing levels of violence against women and girls, in the echo of menace and threat that st… DefenceCrimeSocial Care | 120 |
| 19 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland: Legacy of the PastI thank the hon. Member for all her efforts on behalf of victims of the troubles and others. This is a chance to put in place accountability mechanisms that we should have put in p… DefenceCrimeSocial Care | 190 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 840)It is longevity, but is the education and the things that we are doing in schools now with young people a big part of the strategy? That is what I am trying to say. | 34 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 840)Do you see a link between online abuse and a lack of consequence for that? Do you see a higher level of that in Northern Ireland that would correlate with the higher levels of viol… | 35 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 840)Minister, my colleague is going to pick up with you actions that the UK Government are taking to keep people safe online, but I wanted to ask about your assessment of online violen… | 57 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 840)Minister, Gavin touched on the inter-ministerial group opportunity. In your correspondence to our Committee last year, you said that you would welcome more mechanisms for engagemen… | 105 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 840)You mentioned education. Obviously education policy is devolved. Are there are there good practices on relationships and sexual education that you think are useful in tackling this… | 47 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | EngagementsWe have seen this play out before: a US rush to military escalation with no plan for what comes next. We have seen schoolgirls bombed in Iran, whole families killed in Lebanon, cha… Cost Of LivingDefenceHealth | 139 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)Our Committee’s papers indicate that you are currently investigating around £1.5 million of assets linked to crime and paramilitary groups. If you became aware of a company, for ex… | 67 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)Do you or other law enforcement agencies have the necessary tools, powers, legislation and political cover to go after the ill-gotten gains of those linked to paramilitary organisa… | 35 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)Is a shop called Green Cross (Art and Bookshop) Ltd on your radar? Based on that information, which has been widely available in the media, would the NCA investigate it? | 30 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)This is probably a question for Rob and Miles. Do the NCA have a view on the recently commissioned scoping exercise by the UK and Irish Governments into paramilitary group transiti… | 31 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)Given the role of groups like the UVF, UDA, CIRA and the INLA in organised crime, particularly in drug supply, would you assess their activity as primarily political or primarily c… | 55 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1341)I think we have largely covered some of the issues around data collection. On extraction, we have heard submissions to the Committee about the lack of data collection and about imm… | 61 |
D · Written questions
Top departments
| Department | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Treasury | 45 | 18.8% |
| Home Office | 38 | 15.8% |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 27 | 11.3% |
| Northern Ireland Office | 25 | 10.4% |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 21 | 8.8% |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 18 | 7.5% |
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport | 11 | 4.6% |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 10 | 4.2% |
Most recent
| Date | Department | Question | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Apr 2026 | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what support is available to Northern Ireland through Great British Energy. | Pending |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a breakdown of support for renewable energy in Northern Ireland from the UK Government. | Pending |
| 10 Apr 2026 | Northern Ireland Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to page four of the document entitled The Legacy of the Troubles: A Joint Framework between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and th… | Answered |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Department for Culture, Media and Sport | To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps she has taken on assigning funding and renewing the national contract for the UK Youth Parliament for the 2026-2028 mandate. | Answered |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Department for Work and Pensions | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he conducted an assessment of the decision to award Capita the Synergy contract prior to that contract being awarded. | Answered |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Department for Work and Pensions | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with Capita on ensuring that no redundancies result from the awarding of the Synergy contract to that company. | Answered |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Treasury | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Northern Ireland Executive has the ability to create an energy support scheme for users of home heating oil with funding from the UK government, announced in the Autumn budget. | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Ministry of Justice | To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that its legal obligations under the Good Friday Agreement are met when discussing Article 3 of the ECHR with European counterparts. | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what guidance he has provided to businesses in Great Britain on the Windsor Framework and Northern Ireland's access to the UK internal market. | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues in response to reports of suppliers in Great Britain ceasing trade with businesses based in Northern Ireland. | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the UK becoming a signatory to the Fossil Fuels Non-Proliferation Treaty. | Answered |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Treasury | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of eligible households in Belfast South and Mid Down, West Belfast, North Belfast and East Belfast constituencies are availing of the Tax Free Childcare scheme. | Answered |
| 09 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans her Department has to provide evacuation flights to British Nationals in the Maldives who are impacted by conflict in the Middle East. | Answered |
| 09 Mar 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the EU’s adoption of a ban on the sale of intentionally added microplastics. | Answered |
| 09 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the needs of British nationals without access to flights to Britain who are in the Maldives due to the conflict in t… | Answered |
E · Committees
| Committee | Role | House | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland Affairs CommitteeSelect | Member | Commons | 28 Oct 2024 | present |
F · Expenses
Every business-cost claim reimbursed by IPSA in the current financial year, grouped by category. “Aggregated” rows are IPSA’s own year-end totals for cost types like payroll and rent that aren’t itemised claim-by-claim.
Category breakdown
| Category | Claims | Paid (£) | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office Costs | 215 | 29,271 | 9.7% |
| Accommodation | 29 | 7,528 | 2.5% |
| Staffing | 1 | 235,979 | 77.9% |
| MP Travel | 0 | 19,822 | 6.5% |
| Staff Travel | 0 | 9,757 | 3.2% |
| Dependant Travel | 0 | 738 | 0.2% |
Top itemised cost types
| Cost type | Category | Claims | Paid (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel - London | Accommodation | 29 | 7,528 |
| Bought-in services | Staffing | 1 | 3,600 |
| Business rates | Office Costs | 2 | 3,420 |
| Utilities | Office Costs | 8 | 2,638 |
| Software & applications | Office Costs | 51 | 1,785 |
| Translation services - other languages | Office Costs | 12 | 1,252 |
| Stationery & printing | Office Costs | 26 | 1,209 |
| Bought-in services | Office Costs | 1 | 1,200 |
| Equipment - purchase | Office Costs | 16 | 1,161 |
| Newspapers, journals, magazines | Office Costs | 36 | 1,082 |
| Training - staff | Office Costs | 3 | 915 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Office Costs | 8 | 901 |
Most recent
| Date | Category | Description | Paid (£) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Sundries | 10 | Paid |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Mobile telephone - contract & usage | VODAFONE VESTA TOPUP [200011725-5808] | 20 | Paid |
| 22 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | SUBLY UK [200011725-9328] | 18 | Paid |
| 22 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Newspapers, journals, magazines | THE IRISH TIMES GROUP [200011725-9327] | 17 | Paid |
| 22 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Newspapers, journals, magazines | BELFAST TE BELFASTTEL [200011725-9326] | 10 | Paid |
| 11 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Sundries | 29 | Paid |
| 10 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | CANVA [***] [200011725-3846] | 11 | Paid |
| 08 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | WAVVE.CO [200011725-4315] | 10 | Paid |
| 05 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Sundries | 21 | Paid |
| 04 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | ABSENTIA [200011725-2722] | 28 | Paid |
| 27 Feb 2025 | Accommodation Hotel - London | [***][***][***] [200011725-1703] | 354 | Paid |
| 26 Feb 2025 | Accommodation Hotel - London | [***][***][***] [200011725-1032] | 187 | Paid |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Accommodation Hotel - London | [***][***][***] [200011725-1697] | 199 | Paid |
| 22 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | SUBLY UK [200011725-491] | 19 | Paid |
| 22 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Newspapers, journals, magazines | THE IRISH TIMES GROUP [200011725-490] | 17 | Paid |
| 22 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Newspapers, journals, magazines | BELFAST TE BELFASTTEL [200011725-489] | 10 | Paid |
| 18 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Mobile telephone - equipment purchase | AMZNMKTPLACE [***] [200011725-1390] | 26 | Paid |
| 12 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories | 5 | Paid |
| 11 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | AMAZON [***] | 18 | Paid |
| 10 Feb 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | CANVA [***] | 11 | Paid |
G · Register of interests
No financial interests declared by this MP.
H · Ward results
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I · Demographics
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J · Public spending
HMT publishes headline spending identifiable by region in PESA. Constituency-level capital allocations (Levelling-Up Fund, Towns Fund, UKSPF, transport capital, BEIS R&D) are published as separate departmental datasets. We are evaluating the cleanest reconciliation for a per-constituency view.