RUPERT Soames received £295,167 for his final four months as Aggreko chief executive, the company's annual report has shown.

Mr Soames received a base salary worth £215,481, pension worth £64,644 and benefits to the value of £15.042. His package for 2013 had been worth close to £1.8m.

Mr Soames resigned from his post with the Glasgow temporary power and cooling provider on April 24 last year after 11 years in charge to take up the chief executive job at outsourcing company Serco.

He was replaced at Aggreko on an interim basis by Angus Cockburn who moved from finance director to the top job for more than five months.

The annual report for 2014 shows Mr Cockburn, who left Aggreko after 14 years at the end of September and subsequently rejoined Mr Soames as Serco's finance director, was paid a total of £1.02 million.

That was made up of a base salary of £427,438, bonuses worth more than £434,000, pension of £139,878 and benefits of £15,874. He was paid £1.14m in the previous year.

Chairman Ken Hanna was given executive responsibilities between October and the end of December while Aggreko waited for new permanent chief executive Chris Weston to serve his notice period with Centrica and start his post in January.

The annual report notes that Mr Hanna did not take any additional fees for the extra responsibility beyond the £327,244 he receives for being chairman.

Long serving financial controller Carole Cran, who replaced Mr Cockburn as finance director, received a package worth £449,792. The annual report confirms her annual base salary will be £412,000.

Asia Pacific regional director Debajit Das received £727,548, down from £814,509 as a result of lower bonus payments.

Americas boss Asterios Satrazemis was paid £623,578, down from £658,269 although the difference was partly to do with currency fluctuation.

David Taylor-Smith, the Europe, Middle East and Africa regional director, got £610,940, down from £631,755 with a lower bonus payment partially offset by a rise in basic salary.

Mr Das is to get his basic salary increased by three per cent this year with Mr Satrazemis and Mr Taylor-Smith receiving an eight per cent hike.

Non-executive directors, which include former SSE boss Ian Marchant, received fees of £60,000.

As previously noted Mr Weston will be paid a basic salary of £750,000, which is ahead of the £675,000 Mr Soames was on.

In the report Mr Weston says he has spent much of his first few months travelling to meet customers, staff and shareholders around the world including Scotland, North America, Panama, Singapore, Australia, Bangladesh, Dubai, South Africa and Mozambique.

He said: "I was able to do a certain amount of familiarisation before starting in January, but nothing beats seeing the operations first hand.

"My first exposure to the business, to its people and products reinforce all I heard about Aggreko before I joined the company.

"I continue to believe that we have a huge opportunity ahead of us; that we play an important role in people's lives, we are very relevant; and I am excited about what we can do."

Mr Weston said he is looking at ways to make sure the business grows over the next five to 10 years.

He admits to being interested in the concept of flexible power and improving engine efficiency of generators as a way to potentially replace permanent power facilities in certain areas.

He added: "In the short time I have been in post I do not think we are short of opportunities. We operate in exciting and growing markets and we have a market leading position."