I had a mistake in my last post, where I was arguing that this bill isn't about raising money, but about raising Kim Howells' public profile. It distorted the sense rather drastically.

This is how it should have read:

"As for the idea that this is a way of getting significant cash for local authorities, the figures he quoted in today's broadcast certainly don't add up to that. In my town if every pub were to have to pay the maximum £500 for a lifetime licence, and the maximum £100 each year to get it renewed, that would amount to around £15,000 once and for all, and an annual £3,000 per year. Not worth rolling over in bed for, for a council with a budget of millions of pounds."

(I had : "In my pub if every pub were...")