Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 75712
Employment: Misrepresentation
Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025
Question
Lisa Smart
Liberal Democrat — Hazel Grove
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that individuals who have been paid below the statutory minimum wage in circumstances involving mislabelled apprenticeships are compensated.
Answer
Kate DeardenEmployers are required by law to pay their apprentices the correct rate of the National Minimum Wage. An apprenticeship combines on the job learning and classroom-based learning. Employers cannot call a worker an apprentice if they are not genuinely an ap...
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