The prime minister faced questions from MPs and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, ahead of talks with EU leaders in Brussels today.

Mr Corbyn began Prime Minister's Questions by asking about the Chequers deal, the PM's blueprint for post-Brexit trade. Was it dead, he wanted to know.

"The answer is no," replied Mrs May.

Read more on the exchanges here.

Errors mean 180,000 people on sickness benefits will now receive backdated payments.

The UK prime minister is meeting EU leaders in Brussels with talks deadlocked over the Irish border.

Following the presentation of a petition by Labour MP Rachael Maskell, MPs move on to the adjournment debate. Independent MP John Woodcock leads tonight's debate, focusing on drug trafficking and county lines policy.

That's it from our coverage of the Commons for today, we'll be back tomorrow when business begins with Environment, Food and Rural Affairs questions at 9.30am.

Today began with questions to the Scotland secretary and his team of ministers, before Theresa May took questions from MPs in prime minister's questions. Following that, Tory MP Paul Masterton tabled his ten minute rule bill calling for changes to pension systems.

The first of the day's two Labour opposition day debates focused on Universal Credit, with over 60 MPs looking to speak. The motion was eventually defeated following a division, before business turned to a debate on social care funding.

Labour's motion was approved by MPs without a division, after the government abstained.

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Wrapping up, Health and Social Care Minister Caroline Dinenage says she disagrees with "suggestions that we are complacent".

She says references to cuts are "wrong", arguing that "it is right that more of our money that is raised locally should be spent locally." She says the government has "worked to eradicate the postcode lottery".

"The government is absolutely committed to a high quality care system for all."

The motion passes without division, after the government abstains from the vote.

Shadow health minister Barbara Keeley raises a point of order at this.

"If the government disagrees with our motion, they should have the guts to vote on it," she says.

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Wrapping up for Labour, shadow communities and local government secretary Andrew Gwynne says he has "a sense of deja vu...it was only April when we called for urgent action on social care...but we see no progress."

He says there are 20% more people in need of care than two years ago.

"The crisis is a result of this government's policies."

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Conservative MP Julian Knight says social care funding is "one of the key issues of our lifetime".

"It is absolutely essential that members on all sides of this house... that we actually try to come together to find to a long term solution. We have to work together to find the bold solutions."

Providers and local authorities do need support to "ensure level and quality matches need in the short and medium term," he says, but unless these challenges are met "with a serious root and branch review" they will only provide "a temporary reprieve at best".

We have to get there, he says, "we owe it to our kids, we owe it to our parents."

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Labour's Liz Kendall says social care is 70 years old this year, but it is receiving "none of the twenty billion pound birthday present that the NHS received".

"Yet social care is more important than ever before," she says, "a quarter of older people now need help with daily living...there's a million paid carers and six and a half million unpaid carers."

"We have no sense from the government of the reality of the situation. There has been a 10% cut in real terms on social care spending - 400,000 fewer people getting any kind of care or support."

"We cannot solve the problem without substantial extra funding.

The health foundation says social care needs £6 billion pounds more alone to maintain the current inadequate system. It is not good enough."

Ms Kendall says the reason why "we have not solved this problem" is because most people don't understand that they will need help in old age.

"We cannot go on like this any longer...we have to look at the contributions of wealthier older people, not just the contribution of working age people, who are already struggling."

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Conservative MP Alan Mak calls for "an end of paper and fax machines in the NHS" in order to make savings, which can then be spent on social care.

"We can deploy technology to unlock savings...through embracing the technology of the fourth industrial revolution we can keep people out of care homes and in their own homes," he says.

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SNP health spokesperson Philippa Whitford echoes Barbara Keeley in pointing out that MPs have been waiting for the government's green paper on social care funding.

She says the Scottish government spends more per head on healthcare than the rest of the UK, and suggests the UK government look at what they can learn from this.

Scotland is the only country in the UK that provides free personal care, she says, "and we have sustained that since 2002".

"It is expensive and challenging but it reduces the delayed discharges and emergency admissions."

"We need to make social care a career," she says, calling for better wages and job satisfaction.

She questions whether National Insurance payments should be stopped when people retire, "just as their care needs to increase" - pointing out that NI was originally introduced as National Health Insurance, "but the health was dropped."

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Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock says there have been many successes for healthcare, but "with these successes come new challenges."

In response to concerns raised by Ms Keeley about mental health inpatient treatment, he says the number of people with learning disabilities and/or autism treated in inpatient units is down by 17% since 2015. But he acknowledges that "there is clearly more to do."

"It would be far better if this debate took place in the context that the available budget for social care has been increasing by 8% year on year for four years."

He says he is "attracted to the insurance and contribution model," which the joint public accounts and health committee has suggested to fund social care in the future.

"We are committed to assuring everybody has access to the care and support we need... but this must be based on the principle of shared responsibility."

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Shadow health and social care minister Barbara Keeley is opening Labour's opposition day debate on social care funding.

1.4 million older people have unmet social care needs, she says, adding that it is "coming up to a year" since a green paper was promised that would lay out the government's proposals for funding social care.

She says poorly paid staff in the sector are doing their best to hold social care services together, but are struggling as a result of "hammer blows to council budgets".

"The secretary of state must look at the state of funding," she says, explaining that the existing systems have "perverse incentives", including some which lead to private hospitals charging the NHS to keep patients in expensive and unsuitable care because the local authority lacks suitable resources.

"People who need care, their family carers and the care staff who care for them deserve better than this," she concludes.

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The defence secretary is asked about recruitment targets and the failure to meet them.

Gavin Williamson says the government is not "trying to save pay as a result of not actually recruiting" and adds he wants to recruit up to 82,000 personnel.

He says the Ministry of Defence is continuing to work with Capita on the contract.

Conservative Mark Francois says the contract runs until 2022.

He states the army cannot afford another four years of "disastrous recruitment" as the gap in ranks continues for years. He asks if there is a break clause.

The defence secretary replies the department does have the ability to end the contract.

MP says 10,000 recruits a year is the target and recruitment last year was around 7,000.

Mr Williamson says recruitment is not where "any of us would wish it to be" but if the "ultimate sanction" was taken today it would "cause more disruption".

He says he has no "nervousness" about doing a full review of the contract.

The questioning continues along these lines and the session comes to an end.

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The motion for the second Labour opposition day debate is more straightforward, and is more of a critical statement on the government's policy. If MPs divide to vote, it will be on whether they support the statement or not.

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MPs have voted against the Labour opposition day motion on Universal Credit, with 279 voting for it, and 299 against.

The motion would have forced the government to publish all impact analysis of Universal Credit roll-out since Esther McVey became work and pensions secretary earlier this year.

Business is about to move onto the second Labour opposition day debate, this time on social care funding.

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Concluding for the government, Employment Minister Alok Sharmer says Universal Credit "is a system that supports the vulnerable, is fair to taxpayers, is sustainable and ultimately it makes work pay."

"Playing politics with people's lives helps no one, we should be working together to improve things," he says and calls on MPs to reject the motion.

MPs then divide to vote on the motion.

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Wrapping up for the opposition, Labour spokesman Mike Amesbury says the debate today "has made clear to all that rolling out this programme, even in a slightly different time frame, would be a disaster."

"We've had over 60 speakers today...and one thing is clear, there hasn't been scaremongering here, these have been real cases and real people."

He says he can't believe that MPs have come to the debate today "expecting to, or wanting to, back a policy that is causing such misery."

"The Universal Credit journey hasn't just been a bumpy ride, it's been crash after crash after crash...the only way to halt this is to put the brake on the pedal. We need to stop radical reform and fix this policy before it's too late."

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Labour's Ruth Smeeth asks if Gavin Williamson is aware that Boeing's Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control System is 15 years old and "parts of it are obsolete".

The defence secretary asks which parts they are.

She replies the radar and says "we are buying technology that is not future proofed".

She says she finds it "extraordinary" that there has been no new build of the production line for five years.

She says that the Saab radar has been integrated in to five different aircraft models and adds it could potentially save £2.5bn over the life cycle of the contract

Assistant Chief of Defence Staff Richard Knighton says it would require two radar antenna and require "complex integration" that has not been done before.

The chair says the air force are closing down competition to Saab.

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Scottish Conservative MP Stephen Kerr says the debate has seen scaremongering today "the last thing that the most vulnerable people in our society need is scaremongering from their elected representatives," which he suggests has occurred in today's debate.

"This is a ministerial bench that listens to the concerns of people... things are changing and they are improving," he says.

He says it is important that government works to support people, but adds that: "We make no apology on this side of the House for committing ourselves to the principle that work should be at the heart of our benefits system, that the way we reduce and eradicate poverty is through work."

"I am frankly grateful to be a proponent of Universal Credit," he concludes.