51879 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education
Written Question
Published date: 13 Nov 2025
51879 (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 27th 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 27 October 2025, the School Lunch Collective (SCL) delivered over 354,000 meals across the 1,011 schools in the programme.
The SCL informed the Ministry that two schools received their lunches late.
This is also my response to written parliamentary question 51875 (2025).