Each year, the House of Representatives discusses the budgets of the individual ministries. Every week, one or more budgets are reviewed. On Wednesday, December 17, and Thursday, December 18, the Kingdom Relations budget is on the agenda. You can follow the plenary debate via the Debat Direct app.

On Wednesday from 7:15 PM, members of parliament will debate the Kingdom Relations budget. The House will debate with State Secretary Eddie van Marum of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK). On Thursday, the debate will continue from 4:00 PM.

Schedule

The House started the budget discussions on Tuesday, December 9, with the budgets for General Affairs and the King. The other budgets are scheduled after the Christmas recess:

  • week of January 13: Housing and Spatial Planning and Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation;
  • week of January 20: Infrastructure and Water Management and Economic Affairs;
  • week of January 27: Foreign Affairs and Justice and Security;
  • week of February 3: Interior and Asylum and Migration;
  • week of February 10: Education, Culture and Science and Climate and Green Growth;
  • week of February 24: Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature and Social Affairs and Employment;
  • week of March 3: Defense and Public Health, Welfare and Sport.

Elections

The aim of parliament and government is to have the national budget, presented on Budget Day, adopted before January 1. This means approval by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Ministries can then immediately start implementing policies in the new year. Due to the elections on October 29, the budget debates for the individual ministries will take place this time only in the December-March period, after the new members have taken office.

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