Uma Kumaran, MP for Stratford and Bow
Uma Kumaran has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Assistant Whip; Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office); Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill; Foreign Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) | 2026 to now | Now |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Employment Rights Bill | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
| Great British Energy Bill | 2024 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Uma Kumaran has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | UK Athletics Limited - £800.00 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Live Nation - £509.00 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Qatar between 05 December 2025 and 08 December 2025 | 19 Jan 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Brazil between 10 November 2025 and 17 November 2025 | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Family members engaged in third-party lobbying | Jacob Tilley employed as Lobbyist | 15 Jul 2024 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Uma Kumaran asked 20 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
17 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Uma Kumaran represents Stratford and Bow. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Uma Kumaran won with 44% of the votes, and Joe Hudson-Small (Green Party) came second with 17%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uma Kumaran | Labour | 19,145 | 44.1% |
| Joe Hudson-Small | Green Party | 7,511 | 17.3% |
| Halima Khan | Workers Party of Britain | 3,274 | 7.5% |
| Kane Blackwell | Conservative | 3,114 | 7.2% |
| Nizam Ali | Independent | 2,380 | 5.5% |
| Jeff Evans | Reform UK | 2,093 | 4.8% |
| Janey Little | Liberal Democrat | 1,926 | 4.4% |
| Omar Faruk | Independent | 1,826 | 4.2% |
| Fiona Lali | Independent | 1,791 | 4.1% |
| Steve Hedley | Independent | 375 | 0.9% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Uma Kumaran took part in 170 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Uma Kumaran voted the same way as their party in 169 of the 169 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 4 Sep | Motion to sit in private | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 6 Jul | Threats to national security from other states: changes from the House of Lords | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this