51559 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 13 Nov 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	51559 (2025)
Question asked:	29 Oct 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	09 Nov 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_51559_2025
Document guid:	9f509fa6-ec5e-44fd-9d08-9107fb94a809

51559 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many, if any, school lunches were delivered late during the week of October 20th 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 20 October 2025, the School Lunch Collective (SCL) delivered over 444,000 meals across the 1,011 schools in the programme. The SCL informed the Ministry that four schools received their lunches late. This is also my response to written parliamentary question 51552 (2025).