Hello and welcome to Guardian Unlimited's post on Gordon Brown's fourth and final PMQs before the long summer recess.
Click here now for live coverage of Mr Brown's statement on his counter-terrorism plans.
Already in the news today is the government's intention to face down critics and - reports claim - double the detention without charge period for terror suspects to 56 days.
That was the issue on which Tony Blair suffered his first Commons defeat, when he attempted two years ago to raise the then-limit of 14 days to 90 days. A compromise of 28 days was reached.
With large parts of England still under floods, Mr Brown will have to assuage anger that more could have been done, while on past form he may also drop a major policy announcement into the mix without warning.
David Cameron is freshly back from Rwanda for PMQs, although he has left several dozen Tory activists out there working on community projects.
With a poor byelection result last week in Ealing, and criticisms from some anonymous backbenchers and the party donor Lord Kalms, the Tory leader is coming under real fire for practically the first time since taking over the job.
Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats under Sir Menzies Campbell still seem to be the early casualties of the "Brown bounce", with their poll ratings bobbing around the late teens rather than the more respectable early 20s, although a poll for the Guardian today puts them two points up on 20%.
Parliament breaks up for the recess tomorrow, so expect many MPs to be in demob happy party mood.
Midday
Mr Brown stands up and pays tribute first of all to fallen British service personnel.
Philip Davies, Tory MP for my home constituency of Shipley, gets the first question, complaining that violent and dangerous prisoners have been released early.
But Mr Brown hits back to say that, contrary to what the Tories claimed last week, the probation service had no objections to early release, and those that were released were only released 18 days early.
The Labour MP for Stroud, David Drew, praises the superb work of the emergency services in his flooded constituency - but complains it will take 14 days to get back many of his constituents' drinking supplies.
His residents and farmers want "certainty", and Severn Trent water company "must move quicker".
The PM empathises with their suffering, and says that the government has "made it clear" to Severn Trent that they must provide sufficient bowsers - and he will see for himself the situation in and around Gloucester this afternoon.
12.05pm
Mr Cameron gets a largely ironic cheer as he stands up.
He calms that by honouring the memory of the dead British soldiers and sympathising with the flood victims.
But he goes on to claim that at least five times the Commons has been told that coordination between the Environment Agency and local authorities must improve.
Can Mr Brown now guarantee that it will?
"We will have to look at what is to happen in the future," confirms Mr Brown, pointing out that he has already set up a review in the wake of the Yorkshire and Humberside floods.
That will look at coordination, infrastructure and building plans. It will be "extensive", and he pushes Mr Cameron to agree that there should be "cross-party consensus" that more should be spent on flood defences.
The Speaker has to calm MPs to allow Mr Cameron to reply.
The Tory leader says he is only putting the questions people in the country are asking.
Mr Cameron asks a detailed question about the Belwin formula for the division of spending between local authorities and central government for such emergencies.
In immediate terms £46m is being made available, comes back Mr Brown, and we'll look at that in the longer term.
Meanwhile, he says, the overall budget has gone up from £300m to £600m and is now £800m.
What about those people who have no insurance and will be left with little or nothing, asks Mr Cameron.
We've been talking to the insurance companies and urging them to act quickly, and, for the people who are uninsured, there are crisis grants and some small funds available through local authorities, says the PM.
12.10pm
Labour MP Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) asks about public trust in TV companies in the light of the trust issues.
It's an issue they've got to sort out and quickly answers Mr Brown vehemently.
Sir Menzies Campbell's turn. He wants a detailed assessment in the floods review of the siting of infrastructure across the country, not just in the current flood zones.
Mr Brown agrees that that is an important point to consider for the 21st century.
The terms of reference will be wide enough to cover existing infrastructure, he promises.
Sir Ming points out that the Stern report warned of the costs of not preparing for extreme weather.
He's absolutely right, he did, says Mr Brown, modestly pointing out that the Stern report was commissioned by the Treasury (under him).
12.15pm
Eric Illsley, Barnsley's Labour MP, complains that bingo clubs are being hampered by the smoking ban and high taxes on gambling.
Will Mr Brown meet him to discuss a way forward, in the light of the closure of 21 bingo clubs in Scotland already?
Mr Brown is happy to meet him.
Graham Brady, a Tory who resigned over the grammar schools issue, gets a big Labour cheer for standing up - but his question is about the UK rebate under the new EU treaty.
Dari Taylor, Labour's MP for Stockton South, raises the plight of children living in care.
There will be more to say on that in the forthcoming spending review, hints Mr Brown.
12.20pm
David Cameron returns - and he quotes an interview with the PM today in which he dismissed the need for a UK referendum.
What percentage of the EU treaty is recycled from the previous constitution, he asks.
Apparently other European leaders believe it is over 90%.
"We're back to the old agenda very quickly," taunts Mr Brown to Mr Cameron, and his backbenchers.
Mr Brown goes through the four red lines that Tony Blair secured at the EU summit.
But he doesn't care to put a figure on the amount the two treaties overlap.
He ends by quoting Ken Clarke, the former chancellor, as saying a referendum would be "crackpot, potty and frankly absurd".
Mr Cameron hits back by saying that another former chancellor - ie Gordon Brown - promised a referendum in the last Labour manifesto.
"He claims to be numbers man; is it 90%, 95% or 98%?" demands Mr Cameron.
"The constitutional concept is abandoned," repeats Mr Brown flatly.
"We succeed when we negotiate in Europe, they send an empty chair," says Mr Brown.
But the Tory leader quotes Digby Jones, the new trade minister, as saying that the treaty is a con and in effect is simply the old constitution.
"He's back to the old agenda; it didn't take long after the Ealing South byelection for him to retreat."
"The wheels are coming off the Tory bicycle; it's just as well he's got a car following him!" jokes Mr Brown, before quoting Tory donor Lord Kalms saying "we're going through a bad patch".
12.25pm
A Labour MP raises the postal strike. Mr Brown warns that we must win the battle against inflation.
Liberal Democrat Sir Robert Smith wants British forces withdrawn from Iraq and concentrated in Afghanistan.
We'll meet our responsibilities, but we have reduced the number of troops and reduced our role in some provinces from a combat role to a watching role, but "we won't set an artificial timetable now".
Labour's Mary Creagh (Wakefield, Denby Dale and Kirkburton) wants thermostatic controllers on bath taps to protect the most vulnerable against scalding themselves.
Angus Robertson, an SNP MP, claims the popularity of Mr Brown has been "trumped" by the popularity of the SNP minority government in Scotland - but will Mr Brown be backing Jack McConnell to remain as Labour leader in Edinburgh?
Mr Brown praises Mr McConnell but merely adds that he hopes Alex Salmond, the Scottish foreign minister, will do nothing to upset the economy in Scotland.
Lindsay Hoyle (Lab, Chorley) wants to know about two new aircraft carriers.
Mr Brown hopes he will be happy with the statement from the defence secretary later.
David Heathcoat-Amory points out that separatist parties are in power in both Edinburgh and Cardiff.
Mr Brown points out 70% of voters did not vote for nationalist parties.
12.30pm
Labour backbencher Chris Bryant wants to break the vicious circle of poverty in his Rhondda constituency by getting more people off welfare and into work.
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