No, the idea is that a pub would apply for single licence to cover both drinks and entertainment, and will have to specify what that covers in the way of entertainment in advance. At present there are two licences to apply for to different people.

But there will be some kind of sliding scale of fees to cover different types of entertainment, and a licence without any entertainment cover will still be the cheap option - and that means that a lot of pubs will go for it. After all, they'll be able to stick up a giant screen and show football or whatever they feel like showing off the TV without any additional licence to pay.

Then of course there are other places such as coffee bars, bookshops, community centres where there's no drinks licence involved. It's not clear what is going to be the situation there. Presumably they'll have to apply for a Pubic Entertainment Licence and so forth, and they aren't going to.

But if people want clarification the best thing to do is to write to Ronnie Bridgett, or to their MP. It doesn't take any longer really than to post to the Mudcat, and it gets the message across that there are people who care about thee things. All the contact details have been posted here, and if anyone can't find them they can be posted again or sent by PM.