27753 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 09 Jun 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	27753 (2025)
Question asked:	26 May 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	03 Jun 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_27753_2025
Document guid:	e35ecb09-2144-4336-853e-4f0eca8a8cce

27753 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many, if any, school lunches were wasted during the week of May 19th 2025, expressed as an overall number?

Hon David Seymour: The number of surplus lunches across the programme will be collated in term two and reported by suppliers and internal model schools in the end of term survey. One of the external model suppliers, the School Lunch Collective (SLC), publishes surplus meal data on their website daily here: https://www.schoollunchcollective.co.nz/. In the week of 19 May 2025, the SLC delivered 539,511 meals. 52,060 surplus meals were collected from schools and returned to commercial production kitchens.