58801 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 19 Jan 2026

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	58801 (2025)
Question asked:	14 Dec 2025
Member asking:	Hon Willow-Jean Prime
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	21 Dec 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_58801_2025
Document guid:	eb50fb14-5b0f-4abf-9cd8-51245aa28a56

58801 (2025). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Associate Minister of Education: How many, if any, school lunches were wasted during the week of December 8th 2025, expressed as an overall number?

Hon David Seymour: I am advised by the Ministry of Education that surplus counts for meals not eaten at the end of lunch service are being monitored and used for continuous improvement of the programme. One of the external model suppliers, the School Lunch Collective (SLC), publishes surplus meal data on their website daily here: https://www.schoollunchcollective.co.nz/ Due to a change in the way the SLC reports surplus lunches, the percentage and number of lunches wasted during the week of 8 December 2025 is not available within the timeframe of this written parliamentary question.