31847 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

31847 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many lunches that were meant to serve specific dietary or religious needs errantly included inappropriate ingredients, such as ham in a vegetarian meal, during the week of June 2nd 2025?

Hon David Seymour: There were around 749,000 meals delivered over the four-day week of 2 June 2025, across the 1011 schools in the programme. The Ministry does not track dietary meals across all suppliers and internal meal providers in the programme daily. The School Lunch Collective (SLC), which deliver meals to 43% (436) of schools in the programme, provides the Ministry of Education with daily dietary information delivered to schools. In the week of 2 June 2025, all 46,479 specific dietary or religious meals were delivered and met the needs of students. This is also my response to written parliamentary question 31850 (2025).