49476 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 23 Oct 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	49476 (2025)
Question asked:	12 Oct 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	19 Oct 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_49476_2025
Document guid:	134f60ae-a6cd-4e92-8b70-0624fe94e5f3

49476 (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 October 6th 2025?

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 6 October 2025, the School Lunch Collective delivered 472,803 lunches. Of these, the Ministry was not advised of any inappropriate ingredients included in the meals supplied for specific dietary or religious needs.