55908 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 15 Dec 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	55908 (2025)
Question asked:	01 Dec 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	09 Dec 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_55908_2025
Document guid:	d999750d-4498-4ea3-8581-9bfbb5da738f

55908 (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 November 24th 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 24 November 2025, the School Lunch Collective delivered a total of 383,659 lunches. Of these, the Ministry was not advised of any inappropriate ingredients included in the meals supplied for specific dietary or religious needs.