Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Netherlands)

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Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Department overview
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
Logo of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Building of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Formed	12 March 1798 (1798-03-12)
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Headquarters	Turfmarkt 147, The Hague, Netherlands
Employees	3,000
Annual budget	€4,0 billion (2013)^[1]
Ministers responsible	Ronald Plasterk (Ad interim), Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Stef Blok, Minister for Housing and the Central Government Sector
Department executive	Richard van Zwol, Secretary-General
Website	Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Dutch: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties; BZK) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Home Affairs, Civil service Intelligence and the relations with the other countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Ministry was created in 1798 as the Department of internal police and monitor the state of dikes, roads and waters of the Batavian Republic and in 1876 became the Ministry of the Interior and had several name changes before it became the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in 1998. The Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Dutch: Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties) is the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands. Stef Blok has been the acting Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations since 29 June 2016.

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Responsibilities

The Ministry is called the "Mother of all Ministries" because most ministries, like the former Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Ministry of Education, Culture and Science split from the ministry at one time or another or the "residual ministry", because it is left with a diverse set of responsibilities after this process. It has the legal mission to:

uphold the Constitution of the Netherlands;
guarantee the democratic rule of law;
ensure an effective and efficient public administration, including lower governments, the municipalities, provinces and Water boards;
promote the quality of the Civil service and coordinate management and personnel policy for all civil servants;
coordinate cooperation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, namely with Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

Because it shares so many responsibilities, and has twin buildings (both old and new) with the Ministry of Security and Justice, they are sometimes called the twin ministries.

Organization

The ministry is currently headed by one minister and one state secretary. It employs almost 3,000 civil servants. The ministry's main office is located in the centre of The Hague in the same building as the ministry of Justice. The civil service is headed by a secretary general and a vice-secretary general, who head a system of four directorates general:

The Directorate General for Public Administration
The Directorate General for Management and Personnel Policy
The Directorate General for Constitutional Affairs and Kingdom Relations.

An important autonomous agency of the ministry is the General Intelligence and Security Service.

History

The ministry was founded in 1798 as the department for internal policy and supervision on the state of water works in Batavian Republic. Since 1801 it has been named Ministry of the Interior, and some other responsibilities have been added to its name: Agriculture (1922-1932) and Kingdom Relations (1998-date). Between 1959 and 1998 a minister was given the portfolio of relations with Surinam, the Dutch Antilles and Aruba in addition to his other portfolios before that, there was a minister of Colonial Affairs, which was called Overseas Affairs after 1945.

References

↑ (Dutch) VII Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, Rijksoverheid, September 18, 2012

External links

(Dutch) Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Rijksoverheid)

Ministers of the Interior of the Netherlands

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

Luzac De Kempenaer Thorbecke Van Reenen Simons Van Rappard Van Tets van Goudriaan Van Heemstra Thorbecke Geertsema Carelszoon J. Heemskerk Fock Thorbecke Van Bosse Geertsema Carelszoon J. Heemskerk Kappeyne van de Coppello Six Pijnacker Hordijk J. Heemskerk Mackay De Savornin Lohman Tak van Poortvliet Van Houten Goeman Borgesius Kuyper Rink T. Heemskerk Cort van der Linden De Beerenbrouck De Geer Kan De Beerenbrouck De Wilde Boeijen Burger Van Boeijen Beel Witteman Van Maarseveen Van Schaik Teulings Van Maarseveen Teulings Beel Van Oven Suurhoff Struycken Toxopeus Smallenbroek Samkalden Verdam Beernink Geertsema De Gaay Fortman Wiegel Van Thijn Rood Rietkerk Korthals Altes De Korte Van Dijk De Koning Van Dijk Dales Hirsch Ballin Van Thijn De Graaff-Nauta Dijkstal Peper Van Boxtel De Vries Remkes Ter Horst Hirsch Ballin Donner Spies Plasterk Blok Plasterk

Ministers of Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

Korthals Biesheuvel Bakker Nelissen Lardinois Geertsema De Gaay Fortman Van der Stee Den Uyl De Koning Lubbers Hirsch Ballin Lubbers Voorhoeve Peper Van Boxtel De Vries Remkes De Graaf Pechtold Nicolaï Ter Horst Hirsch Ballin Donner Spies Plasterk Blok Plasterk

Government of the Netherlands

Structure and process

Structure

Government	Monarch and the Ministers, including Ministers without Portfolio

Council of Ministers	Ministers, including Ministers without Portfolio, chaired by the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and one or more Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Cabinet (list)	Ministers, including Ministers without Portfolio and State Secretaries

Process

Demissionary cabinet
Dutch cabinet formation
- 2003
- 2006/2007
- 2010
- 2012

Current ministries

General Affairs Interior and Kingdom Relations Foreign Affairs Finance Security and Justice Economic Affairs Defence Health, Welfare and Sport Education, Culture and Science Infrastructure and the Environment Social Affairs and Employment

Cabinets

Schimmelpenninck
De Kempenaer-Donker Curtius
Thorbecke I
Van Hall-Donker Curtius
Van der Brugghen
Rochussen
Van Hall-Van Heemstra
Van Zuylen van Nijevelt-Van Heemstra
Thorbecke II
Fransen van de Putte
Van Zuylen van Nijevelt
Van Bosse-Fock
Thorbecke III
De Vries-Fransen van de Putte
Heemskerk-Van Lynden van Sandenburg
Kappeyne van de Coppello
Van Lynden van Sandenburg
Heemskerk Azn.
Mackay
Van Tienhoven
Röell
Pierson
Kuyper
De Meester
Heemskerk
Cort van der Linden
Ruijs de Beerenbrouck I
Ruijs de Beerenbrouck II
Colijn I
De Geer I
Ruijs de Beerenbrouck III
Colijn II
Colijn III
Colijn IV
Colijn V
De Geer II
Gerbrandy I
Gerbrandy II
Gerbrandy III
Schermerhorn-Drees
Beel I
Drees-Van Schaik
Drees I
Drees II
Drees III
Beel II
De Quay
Marijnen
Cals
Zijlstra
De Jong
Biesheuvel I
Biesheuvel II
Den Uyl
Van Agt I
Van Agt II
Van Agt III
Lubbers I
Lubbers II
Lubbers III
Kok I
Kok II
Balkenende I
Balkenende II
Balkenende III
Balkenende IV
Rutte I
Rutte II

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