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From: Jackson Wood
Dear David Seymour,
As the Minister responsible for the delivery of the Healthy School Lunches Programme, I would like to request a list of all the lunches you have had during normal work hours (Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays) since March 2024, when you announced the school lunches program would be reviewed.
While I appreciate this is not necessarily information that your office would hold, what you are eating while working for the New Zealand Government is of public interest given the ongoing issues with the program you are responsible for.
Please provide the list in an excel spreadsheet with date, main menu item, cost (if possible), and whether it was paid for (directly or indirectly) by the New Zealand Government.
If your office does not hold this information, can you please record and provide this information for the next 20 business days.
Yours faithfully,
Jackson Wood
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
David Seymour
Dear Jackson
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:
a list of all the lunches you have had during normal work hours (Monday to
Friday, excluding public holidays) since March 2024, when you announced
the school lunches program would be reviewed.
We received your request on Monday 24 March 2025. We will endeavour to
respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
Wednesday 23 April 2025, being 20 working days after the day your request
was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
Kind regards,
Office of Hon David Seymour
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson Wood <[FOI #30508 email]>
Sent: Monday, 24 March 2025 11:48 AM
To: David Seymour (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Lunches
Dear David Seymour,
As the Minister responsible for the delivery of the Healthy School Lunches
Programme, I would like to request a list of all the lunches you have had
during normal work hours (Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays)
since March 2024, when you announced the school lunches program would be
reviewed.
While I appreciate this is not necessarily information that your office
would hold, what you are eating while working for the New Zealand
Government is of public interest given the ongoing issues with the program
you are responsible for.
Please provide the list in an excel spreadsheet with date, main menu item,
cost (if possible), and whether it was paid for (directly or indirectly)
by the New Zealand Government.
If your office does not hold this information, can you please record and
provide this information for the next 20 business days.
Yours faithfully,
Jackson Wood
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
David Seymour
Dear Jackson
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:
a list of all the lunches you have had during normal work hours (Monday to
Friday, excluding public holidays) since March 2024, when you announced
the school lunches program would be reviewed.
We received your request on Monday 24 March 2025. We will endeavour to
respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
Wednesday 23 April 2025, being 20 working days after the day your request
was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
Kind regards,
Office of Hon David Seymour
[1]A pink and Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025)
white emblem
with two women Minister for Regulation
holding flags Associate Minister of Education
Description
automatically Associate Minister of Justice
generated
Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
DSOIA472
-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson Wood <[FOI #30508 email]>
Sent: Monday, 24 March 2025 11:48 AM
To: David Seymour (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Lunches
Dear David Seymour,
As the Minister responsible for the delivery of the Healthy School Lunches
Programme, I would like to request a list of all the lunches you have had
during normal work hours (Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays)
since March 2024, when you announced the school lunches program would be
reviewed.
While I appreciate this is not necessarily information that your office
would hold, what you are eating while working for the New Zealand
Government is of public interest given the ongoing issues with the program
you are responsible for.
Please provide the list in an excel spreadsheet with date, main menu item,
cost (if possible), and whether it was paid for (directly or indirectly)
by the New Zealand Government.
If your office does not hold this information, can you please record and
provide this information for the next 20 business days.
Yours faithfully,
Jackson Wood
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