Stephen Fitzpatrick has been asked by an MP whether Ovo is doing “a favour” to employees being offered redundancy after he suggested that now is the “best time in a generation” to look for a new job. The Ovo Group chief executive and founder was grilled on Tuesday (8 February) at the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s energy prices hearing about his company’s plans to offer redundancy to up to 2,000 employees.