40757 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education
Written Question
Published date: 05 Sep 2025
40757 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many, if any, school lunches were delivered late during the week of August 18th 2025, expressed as an overall number?
Hon David Seymour: I am advised that the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) does not track lunches across all suppliers and internal meal providers in the programme on a weekly basis.
During the week of 18 August 2025, the School Lunch Collective (SLC) delivered 489,197 lunches.
The SLC informed the Ministry that one school received fewer lunches than they had ordered, and one school received their lunches late.