The government announced its plans for England in September, proposing:

• People will no longer pay more than £86,000 towards their care during their lifetime, starting in October 2023
• The £86,000 limit, or cap, will only cover personal care, such as help washing or dressing. It would not cover living costs such as food, energy bills or accommodation
• After people reach the £86,000 cap, personal care will be paid for by local authorities
• People with assets under £20,000 won't have to contribute to care costs (compared with £14,250 now). However, they might have to contribute from their income. Assets are things you own - like a house or savings
• Those with between £20,000 and £100,000 can get help towards costs from their local council. This is means-tested - so it depends on things like income and property

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Social Care Minister Gillian Keegan tells the Commons about the government's "ambitious" proposals for social care reform.

The Tory MP says the 10-year plan is a "product" of years of work and thanks those who have been involved in developing them.

She adds those people who need care and social care workers "deserve a system that works for them".

Keegan adds successive governments have "ducked" reforms to the system over the years, but says the current one is determined to fix it.

Social Care Minister Gillian Keegan has taken to the dispatch box to give more detail on the government's social care reforms.

Stay with us for more detail.

Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor

The story of Downing Street Christmas parties comes at a moment while we are in limbo about this new variant of Covid and unsure about how serious it might be.

Families around the country are thinking what might the impact be on people's plans for the next few weeks of their lives.

And of course that brings back memories of what happened last year , when there were weeks of promises from the government - then suddenly a very significant about turn, saying sorry, after all the festivities are basically being called off.

In that context, that front page story in the Mirror alleging there was a traditional Christmas knees up in No 10 becomes something that was a political attack too hard to resist for both the Labour and SNP leaders.

And Boris Johnsons non-denial in the Commons was actually rather deafening.

Back in the Commons on Storm Arwen, Labour's Ed Miliband responds to Kwasi Kwarteng citing "heartbreaking stories" of people left without power, water or light, as well as people unable to get through to helplines for answers.

He asks if the minister believes there is enough support for the most vulnerable people on the ground in northern England and Scotland and if he has considered bringing in the British armed forces to support people.

The shadow Climate Change secretary also asks for an estimate of how many people will be left without power and how long it will take to reconnect them.

Miliband says after devastating winter storms in 2013, it was "said at the time that lessons would be learned".

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Did you miss the main event? Don't worry, we can bring you the highlights!

The session was dominated by exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer over Covid - in particular the claim a Christmas party took place in Downing Street last year, when such get-togethers were against restrictions.

The PM said guidance was "followed completely", but the Labour leader accused him of "taking the British public for fools".

The leaders also clashed over the building of 40 new hospitals, as promised in the 2019 Conservative manifesto. Sir Keir said the PM regularly broke his promises, but Johnson said his opponent "drivels on incessantly".

In questions from other MPs, Johnson:

• Was urged to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights
• Said the government was looking at bringing in a pill to treat Covid
• Denied a Labour MP's claim that the government was planning to revoke people's citizenship and deport them in response to minor offences
• Agreed to discussions on adding the 1989 Hillsborough disaster to England's national curriculum

Vicki Young
Deputy Political Editor

In a post-PMQs briefing to Westminster journalists, Downing Street is under pressure to clarify whether staff parties took place in No 10 just before last Christmas.

A spokeswoman says they “don’t recognise this report” and “Covid rules have been followed at all times”.

They were very reluctant to answer detailed questions about exactly what went on, but they were not denying parties took place.

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Now PMQs has finished, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is making a statement on Storm Arwen.

He says he has been assured that the "overwhelming majority" who have seen their electricity hit will see power restored in the next day or two.

This has been "an extremely difficult week" for many MPs' constituents, he says.

He promises his department will be looking at ways to build "an even more resilient power system".

Stay with us for more analysis from PMQs and news from the upcoming statements in the Commons, including on social care.

Labour's Ian Byrne says the 97 victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster will next week receive the freedom of the city of Liverpool.

He adds that details of the disaster should be added to the national curriculum in England, arguing that the legacy of media "smears" against Liverpool FC fans can be countered "through the power of education".

Boris Johnson acknowledges that feelings in Liverpool "remain very raw" and that it is vital the lessons "should be properly learned".

He says a minister will discuss Byrne's idea with him.

And that ends Prime Minister's Questions for this week.

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Labour's Imran Hussain presses the PM on the government's plans to give the Home Office the ability revoke people's citizenship in its Immigration Bill.

The Bradford East MP says it means Home Secretary Priti Patel can deport people for "even the most minor offences" and criticises the government's "horrific track record" over their treatment of migrants, asking: "When is he coming for me"?

Boris Johnson angrily replies that Hussain should withdraw his "absolutely shameful" remarks, saying the borders bill does "nothing of the kind".

The PM adds the plan "helps us fight the evil gangs" transporting people across the channel on "unseaworthy boats", adding a "sensible Labour Party" should support it.

Conservative David Davis hails the drug company Pfizer's "successful" trial of the Paxlovid pill as a treatment for Covid.

He asks whether this will be used to supplement vaccines and help stop an "arms race" of jabs.

The PM says the government has already invested in thousands of courses but that Paxlovid has yet to be cleared for UK use.

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Labour's Jessica Morden says lines in Wales makes up 11% of UK rail network, but only receive 2% of rail enhancement funding.

"Having under-delivered on rail in the North, having under-delivered on rail in Wales, why should anyone trust this government," she asks.

Boris Johnson says the government has "a fantastic agenda" for the Welsh rail network and says the links in the north Welsh corridor "deserve to be improved".

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Liberal Democrat Christine Jardine focuses on air pollution in her Edinburgh West constituency, which she says has some of the worst pollution levels in the UK.

She says an estimated one in 29 deaths in the Scottish capital are related to air pollution and asks the PM to support a bill to "let us all breathe a little easier".

Boris Johnson claims the UK is "moving all out towards electric vehicles" faster than anyone else in Europe

He cites the praise of the government's clean air strategy by the World Health Organisation as an "example for the rest of the world to follow".

Labour's Emma Hardy says women have been left with pain they describe as being "like razor blades inside them" as a result of damage caused by mesh implants.

She asks why the PM will not give these "mesh-damaged women" the redress that was recommended in last year's Cumberlege report.

Boris Johnson says this is an "extremely" serious issue and if the government can do more, it will.

Reality Check

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned whether all of the 40 new hospitals promised by the government are really new.

He referred to a document sent to the NHS: “This guide instructs everybody to describe refurbishments and alterations on existing hospitals as new hospitals.”

The document he was talking about was sent out in August 2021 by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and called the “New hospital programme communications playbook, external”.

It included a definition of what counts as a 'new' hospital:

• A whole new hospital site on a new site or current NHS land
• A major new clinical building on an existing site or a new wing of an existing hospital
• A major refurbishment and alteration of all but building frame or main structure

It said: "The schemes named in the announcement are not all identical and vary across a number of factors [but] must always be referred to as a new hospital".

You can read more about the 40 hospitals and other claims here.

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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says farmers will see their payments cut by at least 5% this month.

He says the prime minister seems to be prepared to see British farmers go bankrupt.

Davey urges him to stop cutting payments until the new scheme is published.

Boris Johnson says British farming does “an outstanding job” and that the government is "opening up new opportunities around the world" for the industry.