Business minister Pat McFadden has asked the Low Pay Commission to come up with a list of recommendations around offering a minimum wage to apprentices.
Apprentices under the age of 18 are currently exempt from the National Minimum Wage. Apprentices aged 19 or older are also exempt in the first year of their apprenticeship. The Learning and Skills Council has set £80 a week as a minimum wage for all apprentices in England but admitted to the Low Pay Commission in a report published in May that it did not have mechanisms for monitoring this and that current mechanisms were "not fit for purpose".
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