Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

Dutch: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat
Logo of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Building of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Department overview
Formed	14 October 2010 (2010-10-14)
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Headquarters	Rijnstraat 8, The Hague, Netherlands
Annual budget	€15,7 billion (2018)[1]
Minister responsible	Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management
Deputy Minister responsible	Stientje van Veldhoven, State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management
Department executive	Lidewijde Ongering, Secretary-General
Website	(in English) Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Dutch: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat; I&W) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Transport, Aviation, Housing policy, Public works, Spatial planning, Land management and Water Management. The Ministry was created in 2010 as the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment following the merger of the Ministry of Transport and Water Management and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment. In 2017 the Ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the responsibilities for Environmental policy and Climate change policy were transferred to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management (Dutch: Minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) is the head of the Ministry and a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands. The current Minister is Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, who has been in office since 26 October 2017.^[2]

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Organisation

The Ministry has currently two Government Agencies and three Directorates:

Government Agencies				Responsibilities
		Rijkswaterstaat	RWS	Public infrastructure • Water Management
		Meteorological Institute (Dutch: Meteorologisch Instituut)	KNMI	Weather forecasting

• Directorate for Mobility and Transport (DGB)
• Directorate for Spatial Development and Water Affairs (DGRW)
• Directorate for Knowledge, Innovation and Strategy

See also

• List of Ministers of Infrastructure of the Netherlands

References

External links

• (in English) Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management