British gas profits

Title

British gas profits

Genre

News report; Interview; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

23 Feb 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:03:00

Description

Bruce Whitfield reports on a rowdy Prime Minister’s Question Time on British Gas’s large profits, salary rises for top executives and cutbacks in staff and customer service since it was privatised. Includes Commons speeches by Speaker Betty Boothroyd; Labour Party leader Tony Blair; Prime Minister John Major. Also interviews with Karen Livingstone, GMB union; Gas Consumer Council regional manager for London, Hazel Hinton.

Contributors

Betty Boothroyd; John Major; Tony Blair; Karen Livingstone; Hazel Hinton

Keywords

Wages; Privatization; Profits; Gas industry; British Gas; Profit sharing; Gas companies

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