55914 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education
Written Question
Published date: 15 Dec 2025
55914 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many lunches meant to serve specific dietary or religious needs were delivered late 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 (SCL) delivered 383,659 meals.
The SCL informed the Ministry that eight schools received their lunches late. This equated to 62 special diet or religious lunches received late.