Analysis By Nick Assinder Political correspondent, BBC News website

Gordon Brown's mini-Queen's speech - although, apparently, we must learn to call it the summer statement - may not have been comprehensively leaked, budget-style, beforehand. Yet it still managed to contain few big shocks.

Queen's speech will still go ahead in November

In fact, one of the biggest surprises came in the question time session before it when he announced a review of the controversial super casino proposals and hinted they will never now be built.

There is a danger that announcement may overshadow the weighty statement on future legislation which has broken ages-old tradition by revealing the government's plans four months before the Queen's speech.

And Manchester MPs have already expressed anger at the decision, threatening serious trouble ahead for the prime minister on this one.

But it is also the case that, while the headline announcements made by the prime minister to the Commons may have been widely expected, there is some heavy detail in the full package that will take MPs time to digest.

There were, as predicted, big measures trailed on health, education and, in particular, housing, which will get three of the planned 21 bills.

Surplus land

The housing crisis - and few would deny it is a crisis, particularly for first time buyers - has been building for years, something the Labour government is being blamed for.

Mr Brown wants to give public a say

But it has only been within the past few months that both the Tories and Labour have pushed it up to the top of the agenda. Arguably, it was David Cameron who first did it, but Mr Brown has certainly grasped it.

And it is the proposals for a massive house building programme, with a total of 3 million new homes built by 2020, that will draw the immediate attention.

Mr Brown promised the targets would be met through changes in the planning system, new private-public partnerships and the release of surplus public land.

The first sign of the battles ahead came even before the prime minister's statement, with suggestions the targets could only be met by incursions into the green belt - something robustly denied by the prime minister.

Having said that, housing minister Yvette Cooper later refused to guarantee that there may not be more house building on green field sites which will itself spark controversy.

There are bound to be equally serious clashes over health and education and, very likely, new security measures and the prospect of another attempt to extend the period of pre-charge detention beyond 28 days.

Old faces

But what this statement has also done is show the sort of battle lines being drawn between Gordon Brown's government and David Cameron's Tories.

The housing crisis tops Gordon Brown's agenda

No one denies the decision to make this statement was an innovation and Mr Brown certainly wants it to be seen as a symbol of change towards a more open government and put the Tories on the policy back foot.

He told MPs: "It is now right in the interest of good and open government and public debate that each year the prime minister make a summer statement so that initial thinking, previously private, can now be subject of widespread and informed public consultation."

He now plans to put these proposals out to public debate by, for example, his new citizens' juries.

Mr Cameron also rehearsed the line of attack he will be pushing against Mr Brown, and which amounts to "it's the same old faces with the same old policies".

He dismissed the statement, claiming he had heard it all before with, for example, plans for new homes having been announced in 1994, 1998, 2005 and 2006.

And, on planned health service bills, he added: "Who has been running the NHS for the past 10 years?"

And there is the nub of it all. Gordon Brown want to be "the change" with a government adopting an entirely new style.

David Cameron wants to paint the administration as simply more of the same, in his view, failed ministers with the same old failed policies.