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Boss Chris O'Shea was paid an £810,000 salary, a £1.4million bonus and £5.9million in long-term incentives, pension and other benefits last year

The bumper reward that Chris O’Shea, chief executive of owner Centrica, raked in included a £7.3million bonus bonana - it came after he earlier this he 'can't justify' what he got paid

The country's biggest energy supplier raked in £751million last year, up from £72million in 2022 - a surge fuelled by £500m of energy crisis costs which it was allowed to recoup from bills

Centrica chief executive Chris O'Shea said the Sizewell site was a "possible future investment" as the Government tries to secure funding for the plant

Centrica chief executive Chris O'Shea said that a social tariff for the worst off would be "the best thing we can do for consumers"

Eighty-two-year-old gran Margaret Griffin has been a loyal customer of British Gas for over a sixty years but a mix-up over the phone left her out of pocket and too stressed to leave the house

British Gas, which has 7.5 million customers, has benefited from industry watchdog Ofgem allowing it to claw back money through energy higher bills

Chris O'Shea, who runs Centrica, told BBC Breakfast that "you can't justify a salary of that size"

Chris O’Shea, Chief Executive of Centrica, says energy prices at double the level of four years ago will pile on top of existing cost of living pressures

The UK's blue chip index has dropped nearly 100 points with housebuilders among the stocks seeing the biggest losses

Six months after leaving British Gas, dad-of-one Jamie Walker was still receiving bills worth hundreds of pounds -

British Gas said the profit was due to a rule change by the energy regulator Ofgem which raised the allowance energy firms could claim for supplying customers when wholesale prices massively exceeded the price cap

Energy companies faced a dramatic grilling by MPs following reports of debt collectors forcibly breaking into vulnerable customers' homes to fit prepayment meters

Rowan Purdy, 45, was bombarded with threats by British Gas, whose owners Centrica reported £3.3 billion in profits, even though he was able to prove that a bill was not his

Mark Steel jokes that anyone who knows how economics works understands that the most important rule for a healthy financial system is to give Centrica all the money in the country

'While Centrica made £100 a second, British Gas hired debt collectors who force-fitted pre-payment meters - it's clear we need a windfall tax to put people before greed'

Barry Seckerson has been left struggling to afford his energy bills which have more than quadrupled over winter and says he has no choice but dip into his funeral savings

'War profits should not be channelled into the wage packets of bosses already on huge money when householders and businesses are being fleeced in a broken energy market'

It comes after The Times claimed in an undercover investigation that the energy giant had used debt collectors to "break into" the homes of vulnerable customers