MPs’ business costs

Judith Cummins

IPSA paid £2,293,038 against 1,338 published rows for Judith Cummins between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Bradford South 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

84 claims, £31,184 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

Category	What it covers	Claims	Paid	Share
Staffing	The salaries and employment costs of the people an MP employs to run their office and casework. IPSA pays these directly; they are not money an MP receives.	6	£5,691	18.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	41	£4,350	13.9%
Accommodation	The cost of somewhere to stay for an MP whose constituency is far enough from Westminster that IPSA's rules allow it. An MP representing a London seat is not eligible on the same terms.	37	£21,144	67.8%

Every year in the register

Judith Cummins’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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.

Year	Claims	Staffing	Office costs	Accommodation	Travel	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	137	£100,088	£13,378	£19,597	£10,051	£4,833	—	£147,947
2016-17	75	£128,107	£19,650	£23,635	£9,886	£712	—	£181,991
2017-18	87	£148,371	£15,373	£22,451	£9,007	—	—	£195,202
2018-19	88	£151,090	£21,451	£25,969	£9,521	—	—	£208,031
2019-20	136	£153,779	£27,613	£21,465	£10,745	—	£1,051	£214,653
2020-21	91	£182,098	£12,915	£26,020	£2,689	—	£1,221	£224,943
2021-22	102	£179,486	£26,402	£26,859	£7,925	—	—	£240,672
2022-23	167	£200,693	£23,774	£28,932	£11,334	—	—	£264,733
2023-24	204	£226,591	£23,332	£20,689	£9,821	—	£1,426	£281,859
2024-25	167	£242,156	£27,910	£22,110	£9,647	—	—	£301,823
2025-26	84	£5,691	£4,350	£21,144	—	—	—	£31,184

A year in which Judith Cummins 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.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Recruitment Services &Costs	2	£3,500
Training - staff	4	£2,191

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Software & applications	12	£1,412
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	12	£1,125
Stationery & printing	4	£600
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	4	£560
TV licence	1	£175
Postage & couriers	3	£174

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	37	£21,144

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.

Date	Category	Cost type	Description	Claimed	Paid
16 January 2026	Staffing	Recruitment Services &Costs	HIVE SUPPORT LTD	£1,750	£1,750
26 August 2025	Staffing	Recruitment Services &Costs	HIVE SUPPORT LTD	£1,750	£1,750
7 July 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£900	£900
30 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£900	£900
11 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
30 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
11 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
13 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
31 October 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£738	£738
24 February 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£677	£677
19 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£675	£675
23 February 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
19 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
15 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
8 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £87 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

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 Judith Cummins 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.

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