32346 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 14 Jul 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	32346 (2025)
Question asked:	29 Jun 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	07 Jul 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_32346_2025
Document guid:	6a266293-e958-413a-ad50-df5ebc47b6ed

32346 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many complaints, if any, were there regarding the lunches provided by the School Lunches Collective during the week of June 23rd 2025 directed towards the Ministry of Education?

Hon David Seymour: I am advised by the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) that out of the 509,216 meals delivered by the School Lunch Collective (SLC) in the week of 23 June 2025, the Ministry received five complaints about SLC meals. One complaint concerned a yoghurt with the best before date on the day it arrived at school. Two complaints related to distribution funding allocation and another was about meal quality. The last complaint expressed disappointment about not being permitted to change delivery models.