31860 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

31860 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many, if any, school lunches were not delivered during the week of June 9th 2025, expressed as an overall number?

Hon David Seymour: There were around 939,000 meals delivered in the week of 9 June 2025, across the 1011 schools in the programme. The Ministry of Education does not track the delivery timing of all suppliers and meal providers across the programme daily. 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 week of 9 June 2025, the SLC delivered 537,438 meals. Of these meals, eight schools had additional food items and hot dietary missing from the delivery.