Highlights, not verbatim:
12.25pm: Gerald Howarth asks Gordon Brown about reports that Washington Embassy staff have been told not to use the "special relationship" term. Brown responds unequivocally; saying that he is proud to use the term.
12.24pm: Bob Spink (independent Conservative) gets up to warn Tory-controlled Essex County Council to invest more in his constituency.
12.18pm: Rev Ian Paisley invites the PM to rule out using the Embryology Bill to amend Northern Ireland's abortion laws. Gordon Brown, after paying tribute to Paisley's time as First Minister, says it will be for the House to vote freely on that issue.
12.15pm: Nick Clegg asks if the home repossessions crisis is as great now as in the early 1990s. The LibDem leader invites the PM to instruct the Bank of England to consider house prices when setting interest rates to avoid 'boom and bust'. Brown rejects the comparison and says that interest rates are half what they were in the early 1990s.
12.12pm: I'll give you some basic arithmetic, Cameron responds: One Prime Minister plus One Chancellor equals Economic Incompetence.
12.11pm: The PM reels off a list of economic achievements (in his view) but doesn't answer Cameron's question. Cameron asks the question again. Brown responds by saying that the Tories want £10bn of spending cuts.
12.09pm: The Prime Minister shouldn't be quoting from a novellist, Cameron responds, but should be quoting from today's report - highly critical of the financial regulatory arrangements that Brown instituted. The Tory leader invites the PM to name one other nation that has raised taxes.
12.07pm: To very loud Labour cheers Brown quotes Frederick Forsyth (recently appointed to run a Tory inquiry into defence) who said that David Cameron did not understand basic arithmetic.
12.03pm: David Cameron asks about financial regulation and invites the PM to say that the Governor of the Bank of England - not the FSA - should be in charge of rescuing troubled banks. He highlights today's FSA report which highlights key shortages of banking supervision professionals. Do another U-turn, Mr Cameron says, and reverse the FSA arrangements he established.
Noon: Brown wearing very red tie!
11.45am: Will David Cameron raise the Speaker's decision to spend up to £100,000 of taxpayers' money to defy a freedom of information order on MPs' expenses?
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