To: The Rt Honourable Matt Hancock

Raise the minimum wage for those doing apprenticeships to a more suitable wage to live on

The minimum wage for apprenticeships is £3.30 for 16-18 year olds, and 19 year olds in their first year of their apprenticeship. This is almost exploitation of a younger workforce, and I propose the minimum wage for apprenticeships should be brought in line with the minimum wage for all jobs.

Why is this important?

£3.30 per hour is not a wage that can be lived on, in fact a person earning this amount of money cannot afford to rent in most places and would even struggle to afford transport to get to where they are doing their apprenticeship. A person working the same 40 hours, as most apprenticeships stipulate, could earn up to four times as much as those who are in apprenticeships, for the same amount of work. It is preposterous that a person on an apprenticeship working 40 hours a week should earn only £120.00 on average.

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