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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Oil and gas giants paying ‘fair share’ of taxes, says minister

Oil and gas giants making billions of pounds of extra profits are paying their “fair share of taxation,” a minister insisted Thursday as the Government faced a growing row over how to fund a massive support package to keep energy bills down.

Levelling-up Secretary Simon Clarke was grilled on Sky News over reports that these energy giants, according to the Treasury, are going to rake in £170 billion in excess profits after gas prices soared following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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