Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 8189
maginnisk@parliament.uk
Biography
Electoral history
Contested Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election August 1981. MP (UUP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1983-2001 (Resigned December 1985 in protest against the Anglo-Irish Agreement; Re-elected by-election 23 January 1986; Retired 2001)
Parliamentary career
UUP Spokesperson for:
Defence and Home Office 1997-2000,
Defence, Trade and Industry 2000-01
Party groups
Treasurer, Ulster Unionist Council -2008;
UUP Whip withdrawn June 2012;
Resigned from UUP August 2012
Councils, public bodies
Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council:
Councillor 1981-93, 2001-05,
Member, Southern Health and Social Services Council 1989-93
Political interests
Terrorism and internal security, defence, autism
Countries of interest
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, of Carnteel in the County of Tyrone 2001
Register of Interests
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Cyprus, 16-19 December 2011; costs of visit met by Government of North Cyprus
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Chairman, Moygashel Community Development Association
Chairman, Northern Ireland Regional Reference Group for Autism (expenses only)
10: Non-financial interests (b)
Member, Board of Governors, Royal School, Dungannon