Minimum Wage
(asked on 10th July 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to (a) increase the national minimum wage for 18 to 20 year olds to £6.86 by 2020 and (b) open the national minimum wage entitlement for apprentices to that rate.
This question was answered on 20th July 2015
The Government has published its 2016 remit to the Low Pay Commission (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443328/BIS-15-409-NMW-Low-Pay-Commission-Remit-2016.pdf). This asks the Low Pay Commission to monitor, evaluate and review the levels of each of the different National Minimum Wage rates and make recommendations on the increases it believes should apply from October 2016.