PMQs as-it-happens

PMQs as-it-happened

PMQs as-it-happened

11.58 – We're about to get underway here at Westminster. Topics likely to come up include the floods (obviously) and the bedroom tax. Miliband has taken a slightly calmer tone of late. How agressive will he choose to be today?

12.04 – Miliband begins with calm and rather dull questioning on floods. Is everything being done that it should be? Yes it is.

12.05 – Miliband now asking about electricity substations. Can Cameron reassure us about those. Yes he can.

12.06 – Cameron says  "money is no object" in dealing with the floods. Miliband asks him why the transport secretary has contradicted this. Cameron claims he hasn't.

12.08 – Cameron announces a new tax deferment for businesses affected by the floods. Miliband says he welcomes this but urges Cameorn to spend more on flood defences.

12.11 – Both Miliband and Cameron fighting over who wants to spend the most fastest on flood repair and prevention. "We don't want penny-pinching" says Cameron, who has spent the past few years calling for just that.

12.12 – Flood of flood-related questions continues from the backbenches. Devon and Cornwall is "open for business" says Cameron before talking about rail repairs.

12.14 – Conservative MP David Ruffley asks a question about police reform. This is a new area of interest for Tory MPs since the plebgate scandal.

12.16 – Back to flooding. Lib Dem MP David Heath attacking the government's actions on the Somerset levels. 

12.18 – Cameron talking about the Dawlish rail link again. Never has Dawlish and it's replacement bus services had so much attention from a British prime minister.

12.24 – MPs now tired of flood questions. Several questions about energy prices and the government's "long term economic plan" instead.  We're back to normal.

12.25 – Yet another question about Dawlish, Britain's most famous rail link.

12.28 – Cameron asked about his promise to have the "most family-friendly government in history". Cameron says his long term economic plan has delivered just that.

12.30 – Conservative MP asks about building on flood plains. Cameron says he cannot rule out building on flood plains in the future. 

12.31 – Finally a question on the bedroom tax from the Labour benches. Cameron claims it has "overwhelming public support" which is not what any of the polls I've seen have shown.

12.32 – Interesting question from a Conservative MP on Britain's nuclear test veterans. He claims he has "hit a brick wall" with the government on the issue.

12.34 – And it's all over. I'm flooded out.