{"id":17812,"date":"2026-07-01T05:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17812"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:40:50","slug":"david-seymour-bites-back-at-auditor-general-over-lunch-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17812","title":{"rendered":"David Seymour bites back at Auditor-General over lunch report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"font-serif-text mb-12 leading-normal\">\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Associate Education Minister David Seymour has questioned the Auditor-General&#8217;s credibility after it raised alarm about the government&#8217;s school lunch programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"font-serif-text mb-12 leading-normal\">\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">A report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday afternoon found\u00a0<a class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/politics\/643601\/auditor-general-issues-warning-over-government-s-school-lunch-scheme\">the programme was saving money compared to Labour&#8217;s approach<\/a>\u00a0but its performance was not being properly monitored or tracked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"font-serif-text mb-12 leading-normal\">\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">It found half the meals did not meet nutrition standards last year &#8211; though they improved in terms three and four &#8211; and meals were increasingly being wasted.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Education Minister David Seymour has questioned the Auditor-General&#8217;s credibility after it raised alarm about the government&#8217;s school lunch programme. A report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday afternoon found\u00a0the programme was saving money compared to Labour&#8217;s approach\u00a0but its performance was not being properly monitored or tracked. It found half the meals did not meet nutrition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17814,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions\/17814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}