BEHEMOTH THAT’S AWASH WITH MONEY

£15.7billion

Profits made by Alphabet, Google’s parent company, last year

£72.3billion

Google’s revenues last year (the equivalent of £137,557 a minute or £2,293 a second)

£6.3billion

revenues in the UK

£64.1billion

Global advertising revenues

7.86million

square feet: Amount of office space Google owns in California, including headquarters in Mountain View, and other offices it has bought for expansion

£1billion

Amount Google is spending on new 650,000-square foot London headquarters in King’s Cross, which has capacity for more than 5,000 staff

£5.4billion

Total bonuses paid in company shares last year

£138million

Share awards handed to chief executive Sundar Pichai

72,053 2,500

staff worldwide staff in the UK

£272,394

Average total pay package for UK employees, including pay, share bonuses and pension in the 18 months to the end of June 2015

£11.3billion

Amount spent on research and development last year

£66billion

Combined wealth of co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page

£200million

Amount of tax Google is estimated to have paid in the UK since 2005, on estimated profits of £7.2billion

£130million

Amount Google agreed to pay HMRC last year to cover underpaid tax