Apprentices: Wages

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Economy – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:15 pm on 12 October 2021.

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Photo of John Stewart John Stewart UUP 2:15, 12 October 2021

I support any call for additional apprenticeships and for them to pay a fair living wage.

There appears, from speaking to businesses and apprentices currently in the system, to be a backlog because those who have completed the paper-based educational side of the apprenticeship are unable to finish the vocational one due to the impacts of COVID. Are you aware of the issue, Minister? What is being done to alleviate the backlog?