this is bbc news, the headlines: spain's prime minister, pedro sanchez, has banned people from leaving home unless they need to buy essential supplies and medicines or to go

to work. it comes as his wife maria tests positive for covid—19. the country is europe's worst hit state after italy. france has brought in strict measures after seeing a sharp rise in infections. prime minister edouard philippe has ordered bars, clubs, cafes a nd restau ra nts, cinemas and most shops to close. as many people as possible are being asked to work from home while schools will close from monday until further notice. the world's largest airline by passenger volume, american airlines, is to cut three quarters of its international flights because of the downturn caused by coronavirus. the reduction will begin on monday and continue until may—the—sixth. american says the changes will mean parking almost its entire widebody fleet. now it's time for a look back at the week in parliament.

hello and welcome to the week in parliament, where the government steps up moves to tackle the coronavirus. and the chancellor unveils a £12 billion fund to deal with the fallout. whether it's millions of pounds or billions of pounds, whatever it needs, whatever it costs, we stand behind our nhs. it's going to be much tougher because of the last ten years of deeply damaging and counterproductive cuts to all of our essential public services. we hear from the first woman to chair the budget statement, and find out how eleanor laing kept rowdy mps in order. they were pretty well behaved and, yes, i did give a bit of a stern warning to begin with. and a couple of times, ijust looked at certain people who were making a bit of a noise. also on this programme, the government faces its first

rebellion in the commons over its planned use of chinese tech firm huawei. subpostmasters who say they were wrongly accused of fraud demand a judge—led inquiry into what went wrong. and we drop in on the celebrations to recognise the 100 most influential women at westminster. and i do want to celebrate the difficult women, the battle axes and the rebels. but first, boris johnson says the coronavirus oubreak is the worst public health crisis for a generation — and he's warned that more families will lose loved ones. at a news conference he announced the government was moving to the next stage of its action plan. people with flu—like symptoms — a fever and persistent cough 7 are being asked to isolate at home for seven days. school trips abroad are banned. but he said schools would not close — and major sporting events would not be cancelled — for now. unsurpisingly, the coronavirus outbreak dominated the westminster week. and it was top of the chancellor's

agenda when rishi sunak unveiled his first budget — announcing £12 billion in emergency measures to respond to coronavirus. our economy is robust, our public finances are sound, our public services are well prepared. for a period, it is going to be tough. but i am confident that our economic performance will recover. he said there'd be a temporary disruption to the economy, with up to one fifth of the working age population off work at any one time. whatever extra resources our nhs needs to cope with coronavirus, it will get. whether it is research for a vaccine, recruiting thousands of returning staff or supporting our brilliant doctors and nurses, whether it is millions of pounds or billions of pounds, whatever it needs, whatever it costs, we stand behind our nhs. he said statutory sick pay would be available for people who self isolated and he'd make it easier

for those who were self employed or in the gig economy to access benefits. the government would foot the statutory sick pay bill for the smallest firms. and there'd be a tax break for small businesses too. responding, jeremy corbyn said the chancellor showed "brass neck" boasting that measures to deal with coronavirus were only possible because of his party's management of the economy. we have to be straight with people, there's going to be much tougher because of the last ten years of deeply damaging and counterproductive cuts to all of our essential public services. we are going into this crisis with our public services on their knees and as today's figures confirm, with a fundamentally weak economy, which is now flatlining with zero growth, even before the impact of coronavirus. jeremy corbyn. but of course there was more to the budget

than tackling corona virus. turning to other measures rishi sunak said he'd fulfill a manifesto promise to raise the level at which people began paying national insurance. wages up, national insurance cut, the tampon tax abolished, spirit duty frozen, beer duty frozen, wine and cider duty frozen, we promised a cut tax in the cost—of—living and we got it done. he announced 22 billion pounds a year for research and development — a new plastic packaging tax, money to tackle flooding and remove combustible cladding. there'd be 50 million pounds to fix potholes and more money for broadband, railways and roads. and he finished with this. building roads, building railways, building colleges, building houses, building our union. a budget that delivers on our promises, a people's budget from the people's government and i commend it to this house. jeremy corbyn said the budget didn't "come close" to delivering

on the government's election promises to working—class communities. the government's boast of the biggest investment since the 19505 is frankly a sleight—of— hand. it is in fact only the biggest since they've began their slash and burn assault on our services, economic infrastructure and living standards in 2010. and having ruthlessly forced down the living standards and life chances of millions of our people for a decade, the talk of leveling up is a crueljoke. he said the government had shown complacency about the climate emergency. and he concluded. the conservative party, whatever they say, will never stand up for working—class communities. they will always, always, put the interests of

their wealthy friends first. the reality of today's announcement, it will become clear, and the hard sell and the spin will fade away in this budget will then be seen to be a lost opportunity. a failure of ambition and a bitter disappointment to all of those people who had been promised so much. the snp leader at westminster, said that after the cornonavirus outbreak more help would be needed for the tourism industry. the snp is advocating a package of measures, including a temporary drop in the vat rate to 5% to help businesses reduce their costs. many of the businesses in my part of the world in the highlands of scotland follow a period over the winter that is notjust an issue that they're going to see a reduction in business, in some cases, they are going to be desperately short of cash coming through the door. a former prime minister wondered if the chancellor had been too generous. while spending a lot of money may be popular and it may seem

the natural thing to do, there is of course that necessity of having a realistic assessment of the longer term impact of those decisions, the longer term consequences and the necessity to ensure that we have that restraint and caution that enables us to make the public finances continue to be strong into the future. the man who quit as chancellor last month praised his successor. he had only four weeks to write this budget and he has risen to the challenge. although i do recognise much of it, it is different in one significant respect, there has been a dramatic change, as he set out in the global economy. this means that we have to, of course, face these challenges as a nation. therefore, he has been absolutely

right to focus his attention on the threat posed by the coronavirus. the budget‘s environmental impact divided opinion. there's been plenty of green rhetoric for sure, but the truth of these decisions continue to drive the climate emergency. we have a freeze on the fossil fuel duty, freezing the fuel duty, over 20 billion in new roads compared tojusti billion on green transport and no commitment to removing the climate destroying duties to maximise the economic recovery of fossil fuels. would he not actually agree that when it comes to showing how muddled he is on green issues, this chancellor is absolutely getting it done? we can't on one hand say that we want to protect jobs, we want to keep people's standard of living up, we want to keep people's costs of living down, want to give people freedom to go on their holidays and at the same time say, but let's absorb ourselves in this carbon obsession which affects all of those things. but the lib dems were disappointed. the government tried to pretend that this is a budget that's going to take action

on climate change. let's look at it. a fuel duty freeze again, £27 billion 4000 miles of road, that doesn't sound like a green transport policy to me, mr deputy speaker and then they announce, as if it's going to make a difference, £1 billion on green transport measures. this is completely absurd. sir ed davey. rishi sunak hasn't been in thejob long. but what's it like to step in and deliver a budget on the day itself? kate forbes did just that after the scottish finance minister derek mackay quit over online messages he'd sent to a 16—year—old boy. well, the new scottish finance minister was in westminster this week, and daniel brittain asked her when she knew she was going to be delivering the snp's budget. i got ultimate confirmation at 7am on the budget day and i tell you, my thoughts were the stakes are high they better get this right. so i spent the next seven hours

probably in a bit of a budget bunker, making sure my head was wrapped around every line of the budget and i was ready to go out and presented. and bo you feeling then? you looked very confident. my hands were quite clammy, i did not go for a glass of water for fear that it might fall. but it is a key political event in the parliamentary calendar and i was not anticipating other part is going any easier on me because i had just been thrown in at the deep end and with the press and the gallery, they're looking for the slightest hint of nervousness or fear. so i knew i had to perform at a new add to appear confident irrespective of how i really felt. how much did you actually know about the budget beforehand? or were you aware of every aspect? i was not aware is that of much as i was in previous years, but in the legislation business rates, going to the parliament

at 6pm the night before. i was also to put my feet up a little bit on wednesday night but little did i know, the following day i would have even bigger task to do. so this year was slightly different than the previous years and it really was an exercise in going from scratch to figuring out everything about the budget. you got some very good write ups in the papers, but the financial times had a mini profile, formidable or some the words used. it must be nice to read. i have come from nowhere because i literally had a matter of hours to step up to the big job and inevitably, there will be some phrase, some kind of nation and i have to take the good with the bad, but myjob is to try and manage scotland's finance competently and deliver balanced budgets and that is ultimately my focus.

inevitably, there will be a vacancy of the top one day, fancy it? not at the moment, certainly. let me get my feet under the table with this newjob, the more i see, the less attractive a proposition it is. lots of abuse, offensive comments, it is not a particularly attractive place to be in this age of social media and vitriol. kate forbes. speaking of debuts, the westminster budget statement was chaired for the first time by a woman — deputy speaker dame eleanor laing. now, if you're wondering why it was her and not the speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, that's because the senior deputy speaker is known as the chairman of ways and means — after a long—abolished parliamentary committee which used to deal with financial matters. well, mark d'arcy asked her if she was annoyed by the fact that on the day, many mps referred to her as "mr speaker". there i was, sitting as the first woman to chair the budget, in the

speaker's chair. and several people, some quite high—profile people, just called me "mr speaker". i suppose they didn't notice. but you didn't correct them? well, i didn't think it was right to correct them because i didn't want to draw attention to me. i was not the subject of the day. it was much more important that people were able to concentrate on the very serious matters that the chancellor was addressing and the arguments that the leader of the opposition then had every right to put to the house. and i thought it might be rather egotistical — and wrongly egotistical — if i halted proceedings to draw attention to the fact that i'm not a man. well, indeed, you had to give mps quite a stern talking—to at the start of proceedings just to make sure it all went smoothly. were there any great sort of disciplinary eruptions that you had to intervene on? i know at one point, you were hurrying along the leader of the scottish national party, ian blackford.

actually, people were really well behaved yesterday. i was prepared to deal with some disruption, and i was prepared to stop people intervening or trying to heckle anyone who was speaking, but they were pretty well behaved. and, yes, i did give a bit of a stern warning to begin with. and a couple of times, ijust looked at certain people who were making a bit of a noise. but, again, i didn't want to interrupt proceedings. ifind that sometimes, a stern glance or something rather more severe than that — but without words and without interruption of the flow of the debate — is the best way to discipline people and to keep order. if the occupant of the chair constantly jumps up and shouts "order!" and has discourse with some member of parliament who is behaving very well, well, itjust draws attention to that member of parliament. and if they're not behaving well, they don't deserve to have attention drawn to them. and it

draws attention to the chair. well, that's not the job of the chair. the job of the chair is to make things run smoothly. and it runs more smoothly if you can possibly exert discipline without making a lot of fuss about it. and did you celebrate afterwards? the chancellor's allowed to have a drink of their choice on the despatch box when they deliver the budget statement. does the deputy speaker have a traditional ceremony afterwards? i think this deputy speaker has possibly started a little tradition of having a few friends around for a glass after the budget, yes. now, let's take a look at some of the other news from westminster. the government saw its majority cut to just 2a in the commons as senior conservatives rebelled over plans to allow the chinese telecoms

company huawei a role in the uk's 56 mobile network. the rebels, led by the former conservative leader sir iain duncan smith, tried to make changes to a bill in the commons so that huawei would be banned from the project from the start of 2023. tory critics say the firm is an arm of the chinese state and a risk to uk security — claims it rejects. i worry when we start compromising security. i worry... and this is the point i want to make. we have no friends out there any more on this issue, whether it's the canadians, the americans, the australians, the new zealanders. they all disagree with us. the minister promised the government would bring in a telecoms safety bill before the summer, plan to develop more diversity of providers and allow greater scrutiny. and over time, our intention is to reduce our reliance on high—risk vendors as this process of market diversification takes place. we want to get to a position where we do not have to use high—risk vendors in our

telecoms networks at all. order! but those pledges didn't sway sir iain duncan smith, who pushed his amendment to a vote. the government won — but not by much. 38 tory mps went against the government, including former cabinet ministers david davis, liam fox and sir iain duncan smith. at prime minister's questions, jeremy corbyn focused on the government's policies relating to women. child tax credits for new claimants are now capped at two children, but mothers who have a third child as a result of rape can be exempted. the labour leader pointed out that meant providing evidence. why does he think it's right that 200 mothers have to prove to the government their child was conceived as a result of being raped so they can keep their child tax credits? on his point about the recipients

of benefit, it is obviously... he calls attention to an injustice, and we will do everything that we can to rectify it. people convicted of theft and false accounting over a post office it failure have demanded a judge—led inquiry into the scandal. they blame faults with the post office's horizon accounting system for the discrepancies. more than 500 workers recently won an out—of—court settlement from the post office. 0ne described what happened when she was questioned about a £36,000 loss supposedly due to missing stamps. i gave them all my bank account details, i gave them everything, because i had nothing to hide. i hadn't actually done anything wrong, ijust didn't know why it had happened. they then allowed me to sell the post office so that i could pay them the £26,000. and as soon as i paid the post office, they took all the money, so we couldn't even move into another house.

we had to move in with my son. i had to go through trial because i pleaded not guilty. and then all through the court, it was never, "what could've happened to the money?" it wasjust, "what have you done with the money?" and then i was found guilty of stealing the money — from my signature on the paperwork, on the till receipt — and then i was sentenced to six months in holloway prison. mps have given initial approval to a bill aimed at keeping down the cost of school uniforms. research by the children's society suggests that more than half of primary school parents and two—thirds of secondary school parents have to buy two or more items from a specific shop, pushing up costs. specialist uniform sellers argue they provide good value for clothes worn on about 195

days a year. the march towards "if a child wears it, brand it with an embroidered logo" must end, to drive down costs and make uniforms genuinely inclusive. i attended an open day with my son. we were going around local comprehensive schools and i sat down to hear the headmaster's speech. in front of me, another mum sat down. and she picked up the information about the school. i saw her picking up the uniform list, looking down it, turning to her son and saying, "we can't go here," and they left. the minister backed the bill. the cost of the school uniform must not be a barrier to parents choosing a particular school for their child orfor a child attending a particular school. school uniforms must not be unreasonably priced and schools must not disregard the importance of achieving value for money for parents. to mark international women's day, the house magazine drew up a list of of 100 leading

women at westminster and threw a party to celebrate them. we sent gary connor along. a burst of mozart to help toast 100 influential women in westminster. this is the inaugural women in westminster celebration, to coincide with international women's day. it's great to be surrounded by so many inspirational women and i hope that those who are not on it this year will really up their game and get completely competitive in the way that men would. the women in politics that stick with me most are the people who were prepared to be different and say things that were different, whether that was barbara castle — a great labour politician who fought against the status quo — or indeed mrs thatcher, and i do want to celebrate the difficult women, the battle axes and the rebels. among others in the 100, the current mother of the house. the country at work is made up

of women and men at work, and parliament is no different, so it's important to normalise that and make sure that it's no longer a gentleman's club run by an old boy's network but women are expecting an equal say. and a certain former prime minister. first of all, in terms of front line politics, it's partly about showing other women who are in front line politics. and therefore people can look at us and say, "yeah, that's something i can do." sadly, of course, at the 2019 election, a number of women stepped down — and some women have had really bad experiences from harassment and bullying online — and that's an issue i think we need to be very well aware of. we have different views and different opinions in politics, but we should respect each other‘s use and have just a proper debate about them. so, what advice would mrs may give an aspiring female politician? well, first of all, i would say, do it because it's the bestjob in the world. i think it's the best job in the world. secondly, persevere. it can be difficult. it isn'tjust an automatic thing

that you get into parliament. you have to really work at it. and thirdly, be yourself. theresa may. now, how about a burst of baroque and a look at how power shifted from royalty to parliament in that era? tate britain is hosting the first—ever exhibition of baroque culture in britain, from the restoration of charles ii to the reign of queen anne. selina seth reports. pomp and changing circumstance. british baroque shows the shift in powerfrom monarchs to politicians in the later stuart era, from the magnificence of monarchy restored — albeit with limited powers — and the royal favourites to the rise of the party politician and new artistic patrons. here's the commons speakerjohn smith, who hired

the court artist godfrey kneller for this portrait. it's a magnificent portrait for the pomp and display, probably commissioned by smith himself in order to commemorate his role in the negotiation of the union of england and scotland. he's holding in his hand a scroll marked "the union act", so it's obvious what the whole portrait is about. you have the gold of the mace to one side, and all the light is concentrated on the gold embroidery on his cloak, his face and also the act of union. and then, there's this. it's an enormous portrait which actually shows the collected leadership of the whig party in the reign of queen anne. it's the only known group portrait of the whigs done, so it's really quite significant. it's also painted on the most enormous scale, one of the most ambitious group portraits painted in the entire period.

it's actually an advertisement of whig foreign policy against tory calls for peace. it may date from the 1700s, but some aspects of political life haven't changed. it must have been painted before the summer of that year, when the individuals represented started being ejected from the ministry. and, of course, in october that year — october 1710 — was the great electoral victory of the tories. tabitha barber. and that exhibition is on at london's tate britain until 19 april. and that's it from me for now, but dojoin us on bbc parliament on monday night at 11pm for our daily roundup of life here at westminster. but for now from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello. well, the weather's going to be a little hit—and—miss early on sunday

morning. some of us will need our brollies, for sure. but it won't be long before the sun comes out, and actually, for many of us, sunday is going to end up being a pretty decent day, with at least some sunshine. now, currently a weather system is barrelling across the uk. it's brought rain to scotland and some other western parts of the uk, certainly through the early hours of sunday morning. you can see the rainfall here falling across parts of wales, the south—west of england, and scotland and northern ireland too. but two different wind directions. 0ne coming across the north across scotland, so here it's colder. also a little bit of wintriness across the highlands. here, the winds are blowing out of the south—west, so it's quite a bit milder. so i think a mild start to much of england and wales, but scotland and northern ireland will feel a little more chilly early on sunday. now, you can see the various areas of rain crossing the country, so this is a weather front that will bring some rain around lunchtime in the south—east and east

anglia. showers in scotland, but the vast majority of the uk sunday afternoon enjoying a fine day. it won't be clear blue skies, but at least the weather is looking dry and bright. now, monday, two things happening on the weather front. 0n the one hand, we've got high pressure building in from the south—west. 0n the other, there's a low pressure lurking close to iceland. but the high pressure will be more dominant across the uk on monday, and early scenes outside of town probably looking something like this, so some mist, some frost around. crisp, sunny, calm conditions on monday. certainly across england and wales, across much of eastern scotland too. but early in the morning, we'll start to see weather fronts affecting — or a weather front affecting western scotland and northern ireland here, and stronger winds. so very different weather here. but the vast majority of the uk, i think a fine day on monday, beautiful sunshine on the way. and then, monday night into tuesday, that weather front‘s going to slip a little bit further south. in fact, it's trailing out into the atlantic here, and there's another sort of pulse of rain

running along it. so that does mean that we're expecting some rainfall to reach, again, north—western areas during the course of tuesday. there's a bit more cloud overall across the uk on tuesday. i think the sunniest spots will be on the south and in the east, but look at these temperatures. these are south—westerly winds, 15—16 degrees tuesday for some of us. monday and tuesday will feel like spring. and then, towards the end of the week and into next week, it's not necessarily going to turn that warm, but the winds will die down, the sun will come out, and we will have a high pressure, with crisp weather on the way.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with chris mason and nina warhurst. 0ur headlines today: calls for more life—saving equipment as the government steps up the fight against coronavirus. the foreign office advises against non—essential travel to spain. some airlines have cancelled flights to the country, which is now the second worst affected area in europe. with professional sporting fixtures decimated by the virus, we'll be live atjunior football team preparing to play on. heavy team preparing to play on. rain for some will ease to heavy rain for some will ease away to an afternoon of sunny spells and blustery showers. i'll have all the details coming up shortly. it's sunday the 15th of march.