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MPs’ business costs

Uma Kumaran

IPSA paid £220,463 against 224 published rows for Uma Kumaran between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Stratford and Bow BC. These are the costs of running an office and employing staff under IPSA’s rules. They are not salary, and the largest part of them is wages IPSA pays to the member’s employees rather than money the member receives.

By category, 2025-26

16 claims, £6,843 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.16£6,843100.0%

Every year in the register

Uma Kumaran’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 and the last is 2025-26. Figures are not adjusted for inflation, so a rise between two distant years is partly a rise in prices. Select a year to read it on its own.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsTotal
2024-25208£189,721£23,899£213,620
2025-2616—£6,843£6,843

A year in which Uma Kumaran joined or left the House part-way through is a part year, and is not comparable with a full one.

What each category is made of, 2025-26

The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Postage & couriers2£2,979
Stationery & printing6£1,780
Software & applications3£1,724
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries5£360

Largest claims, 2025-26

The 15 rows IPSA paid most against, with IPSA’s own description of each. Read the description before the amount: IPSA publishes most of a member’s staffing as one row for the whole year — “Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the ⟨year⟩ year” — so the largest row here is usually a year of wages for the member’s employees and not something bought.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
23 July 2025Office CostsPostage & couriersDistribution of Member of Parliament Annual Report in constituency£1,872£1,872
15 June 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
23 July 2025Office CostsPostage & couriersJOGPOST£1,107£1,107
8 August 2025Office CostsStationery & printingPrinting of Annual Report£957£957
30 July 2025Office CostsStationery & printingDesign and layout MP´s Annual Report£195£195
29 April 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner May 2025£186£186
12 May 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner June 2025£182£182
3 September 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsKAPWING PRO PLAN£148£148
2 July 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner August 2025£138£138
2 June 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner July 2025£122£122
24 January 2026Office CostsSoftware & applicationsAPPLE.COM/BILL£100£100
17 December 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£80£80
24 June 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£80£80
2 April 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£80£80
26 February 2026Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£70£70

What this page does not show

Whether any of it was justified. IPSA accepted these claims under its own rules and the register records what was paid, not whether it should have been. A large total is not a finding about the member.

Nor how Uma Kumaran compares with another member. After staffing the largest headings are accommodation and travel, and both are decided mostly by where a constituency is: a member several hundred miles from Westminster is eligible for costs a member with a London seat is not. Two members’ totals are two sets of rules as much as two sets of choices, and the length of service differs too.

It is also not pay. IPSA sets and publishes MPs’ salaries separately and they are not in this register; the staffing figure here is the salaries of the member’s employees.

All MPs’ business costs · Uma Kumaran’s register of interests and votes · Sources