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Dear Andrew

 

Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:

 

(a) an estimate of the proportion of correspondence received by your
Ministerial Office on the school lunch programme that is positive

(b) the dates each of the comments recorded in the Appendix A document
were received

(c) for each the comments recorded whether that comment was received by
School Lunch Collective or whether it was received by the Ministry of
Education

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Riddell <[FOI #30538 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2025 9:01 PM
To: David Seymour (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - School Lunch Programme - more
details on feedback

 

Dear David Seymour,

 

On 24 March you answered an information request of mine about the positive
feedback you state has been received on the current school lunch programme
(your reference DSOIA459).

 

You attached an Appendix A which is, apparently, positive feedback from
schools.

 

You also note that

 

"My Ministerial and Electorate offices do not categorise incoming
correspondence according ot the apparent personal characteristics of the
correspondent, such as their age, or according to the nature of the
feedback provided." and

 

"A selection of positive feedback from schools has been emailed to the
School Lunch Collective and the Ministry of Education. The Ministry and
area managers are also receiving positive comments when they visit
schools. While an official record of positive comments from schools is not
maintained, it is gratifying for the team working on the school lunches
programme to receive this feedback."

 

Frankly what you have provided to support your claims about positive
feedback on the current school lunch programme is deficient in terms of
context and when the recorded comments were made.

 

So I request:

 

(a) an estimate of the proportion of correspondence received by your
Ministerial Office on the school lunch programme that is positive

 

(b) the dates each of the comments recorded in the Appendix A document
were received

 

(c) for each the comments recorded whether that comment was received by
School Lunch Collective or whether it was received by the Ministry of
Education

 

Finally I note that the apparent lack of record keeping on correspondence
from the public on the school lunch programme that you reported in your
previous letter may be in breach of the Public Records Act.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Andrew Riddell

 

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