Denise Coates is believed to have received more than £150 million from her family’s gambling business, maintaining her position as one of Britain’s richest executives.

The total pay for the joint chief executive of Bet365, based in Stoke-on-Trent, was £158.7 million for the year to the end of last March, newly filed accounts suggest, although that is a significant decrease from £270.7 million the previous year.

The salary of the highest-paid director, believed to be Coates, fell to £94.7 million from £220.7 million, but takes her combined salary from Bet365 over the past seven years to about £1.7 billion.

She was also entitled to a share of a £110 million dividend — up from £100 million the year before —which was understood to be about