35895 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 06 Aug 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	35895 (2025)
Question asked:	21 Jul 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	30 Jul 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_35895_2025
Document guid:	96beff62-272b-4717-af36-8571aa836bd9

35895 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many lunches, if any, 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 July 14th 2025?

Hon David Seymour: The Ministry of Education (the Ministry) does not track lunches across all suppliers and internal meal providers in the programme on a daily basis. I am advised by the Ministry that the School Lunch Collective (SLC) delivers lunches to 43% of schools in the programme. During the week of 14 July 2025, the SLC delivered 516,345 lunches. No inappropriate ingredients were included in the meals supplied for specific dietary or religious needs.