, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… Stop all foreign aid payments from the Welsh Government including to "Size of Wales"'. 'The Welsh Government has this year given £775,000 (up from £670,000 last year) to a Charity called Size of Wales, chaired … First Minister Carwyn Jones. 'According to its annual report filed with the Charity Commission Size of Wales lists it spending to include: 'Securing indigenous land rights in Brazil & Kenya 'Building "ecosystem resilience" for orangutans in Indonesia 'Promoting gender …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Global impact of domestic consumption
… Wales becoming the world's first Fairtrade Nation in 2008; efforts to mitigate climate change, including the Size of Wales project to help protect an area of rainforest the size of Wales; and volunteer placements for professionals … environmental genocide in lands afar? Let's look again to another case study—one championed by the Size of Wales—the cause of the Guarani people. The Guarani are one of the largest groups of indigenous people …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Wales and Africa
… nature emergency, as we know, is deforestation and habitat loss. According to the recently published WWF Cymru, Size of Wales and RSPB Cymru study, 'Wales and Global Responsibility' report, an area equivalent to 40 per cent of the … size of Wales is used overseas to grow commodities imported into Wales. For example, the average land required each year to produce Wales's demand for cocoa alone is equivalent to the size of Wrexham county or double …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The energy sector and the climate and nature emergencies
… Minister and others attended the launch this morning of a report by WWF Cymru, RSPB Cymru and Size of Wales that really drives home, I think, how tackling our domestic footprint in terms of carbon emissions and loss … impact that we're having beyond our borders. An area equivalent of 40 per cent of the size of Wales was required overseas to grow imports of certain produce that we use here in Wales, 30 per cent …
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Lady Chief Justice
… the working in partnership for the pilots that I've been talking about. Somehow, it is the size of Wales, the fact that it isn't as big and spread out as England, that enables it to deliver …
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
… where would this come from if we're still to expect decent public services? Cutting the Mbale Size of Wales project, which does great, great things—what's that, £4 million? Well, that won't go very far …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Experiences of the criminal justice system: evidence session with Dr Robert Jones
… Wales about this, about what can be done in Wales. I think that, given the the size of Wales and the opportunities here of, effectively, people working together on this stuff, I think there's some scope …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: COP30 and Wales Climate Week
… rainforest, we should acknowledge in this Senedd that an area equivalent to 40 per cent of the size of Wales is used overseas to grow commodities that are imported into Wales. So, bearing in mind that …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
… constructed, who the architect was, what material and products were used. For a country not dissimilar in size to Wales, it's power to the fact that you can do this, if you put your mind …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… Primary School, from, I think, Llanilltud Faerdref—Joel, near your patch—and it had been arranged by Size of Wales, to do with renewable work, and to make sure that the food they ate at school was sustainable …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 10
… junior class sizes have increased slightly since 2024. But I am pleased that the average infant class size in Wales has remained below 25 for the fourth year in a row. The average junior class size has increased …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Funding formula for Wales
… three times that of Wales's £150 million, despite being nearly two and a half times the size of Wales. In terms of total borrowing limit, both Scotland and Northern Ireland can borrow a total of £3 billion …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government's International Strategy - Oral evidence - Panel 4
… are organisations that work closely on some of those deliverables because they're funded by Welsh Government—Size of Wales, Hub Cymru Africa, those Welsh organisations, have more of a conversation, because of funded projects. Other organisations, international …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government's International Strategy - Oral evidence - Panel 4
… have relationships with other ministers—the Deputy First Minister, for example, who's working really closely with Size of Wales and has met some of their colleagues that they're working with in the Wampís nation …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government's International Strategy - Oral evidence - Panel 4
… gender equality. There's been work that Hub Cymru Africa have done on safeguarding. The project that Size of Wales have been doing for ethical citizenship, work on fair trade, wider work that's been happening within Dolen …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh Government's International Strategy - Oral evidence - Panel 4
… much fantastic work. Just this morning I was texting one of the women who came with Size of Wales that was celebrating the Mbale project. They came to celebrate the fact that 25,000 trees have been planted …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Employer National Insurance
… training or employment; the highest business rates in Great Britain, with the multiplier for businesses of all sizes in Wales set to increase to 56.8 per cent in April 2025-26; and the second lowest business survival rate …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Gaza
… often compare places to the size of Wales. Well, Gaza is 141 square miles, less than the distance from Carmarthen to Swansea in length, and the width of Swansea city centre to Mumbles. This is a small area …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
… catering teams within the schools, for example, will be paid the Wales living wage; also work that Size of Wales has been doing with Caerphilly County Borough Council, looking at menu frameworks in terms of integrating global responsibility …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… and it’s unacceptable. For that to be more than 21,000 people in a country the size of Wales is frankly shameful. I don’t like to make comparisons across borders, but I think we need …