Written reply to PQ on Price tracking of common cooked meals across public and private food establishments, and median prices and differences across categories

Question:

Mr Victor Lye: To ask the Minister for Energy, Trade and Industry (Energy and Industry) (a) whether the Government tracks the prices of comparable common cooked meals across (i) NEA-managed hawker centres (ii) Socially-conscious Enterprise Hawker Centres (iii) HDB rental coffeeshops (iv) privately owned HDB coffeeshops and (v) private food courts; and (b) if so, what are the median prices and price differences across these categories over the past five years. 

Written Answer by Minister for Energy, Trade and Industry (Energy and Industry) Dr Tan See Leng

1.       The Department of Statistics (DOS) publishes the average prices of selected cooked food items such as coffee, chicken rice, mee rebus and roti prata sold at hawker centres, food courts and coffee shops on a monthly basis. The data can be found on DOS’ website.¹ Comparative data on the prices of these cooked food items across types of food establishments are not available.

Note(s) to Question No(s) 35:

¹ Data can be found at https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M213761 ↗ (opens in new tab).