Up to now, the best the energy companies have come up with is a £150m handout available by 2011 - a fraction of their profit in three years' time.
The numbers are scattered across government publications and there is not even any agreement on what counts as a corporate handout.
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He triumphed in the head-on confrontation with Farage over taking a handout from the state (to which the party was perfectly entitled, but which Carswell thought would erode the party's claim to be different) and despite having delivered the most complete non-endorsement of Farage's leadership at the weekend, his status as an MP should be an amulet against lethal attack.
He gave all the attendees a handout to go with his powerpoint presentation, which appears to be his interpretation of Australian economics.
The real reason for the Scots getting such a lavish handout from English taxpayers is that successive Scottish secretaries of both parties have threatened their colleagues with the prospect that, if spending were cut, voters would flock to the SNP.
A false rumour in May that the handout was about to be axed caused near-riots in deprived north-eastern towns, a reminder of this constituency's size and power.
But now "we have got to the stage where nature says 'no-can-do'...We are swimming in a constant chemical soup .A government handout insists that "improving air quality tops the government's agenda".
The same handout suggests that the Pearl River Delta is the source of roughly four-fifths of the pollution.
ReprintsHowever, scenting the chance for an even huger handout from Tokyo, Yoshikazu Shimabukuro, the newly elected mayor of the nearby city of Nago, demanded that the plan be rethought from scratch.
Chris Minko, an Australian who helps run the league, says transfer fees are a sign that the league is no longer just a handout.
