Announcement comes days after Sam Laidlaw publicly gave £851,000 cash bonus to charity
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has handed its chief executive Sam Laidlaw shares worth up to £2m just days after he publicly gave his £851,000 cash bonus to charity.
The announcement came as City analysts predicted that British Gas would have to follow rival supplier SSE, another of the big six, and impose a price freeze until 2016.