Raymond Knops

His Excellency Raymond Knops


State secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 October 2017
Prime Minister	Mark Rutte
Preceded by	Vacant

Personal details
Born	(1971-11-10) 10 November 1971
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Christian Democratic Appeal
Occupation	Politician

Raymond Willem Knops (born 10 November 1971) is a Dutch politician and former officer. As a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl) he was an MP from 11 October 2005 to 29 November 2006, from 1 March 2007 to 17 June 2010 and has currently been an MP since 7 September 2010, succeeding Ab Klink. He focuses on matters of political asylum policy and the Dutch defence.

Previously he was a member of the municipal council of Horst aan de Maas from 1998 to 2002 and also an alderman from 1999 to 2005.

References

(in Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

(in Dutch) House of Representatives biography

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2012–2017)
House of Representatives, 20 September 2012 – 22 March 2017
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD – 40)	Zijlstra Van Ark Azmani Berckmoes-Duindam <Blok> De Boer Bosma Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dijkhoff> R. Dijkstra Duisenberg Elias Geselschap Harbers Heerema <Hennis-Plasschaert> <Huizing> De Lange <Leegte> <De Liefde> Van der Linde <Litjens> Lodders <Lucas> Van Miltenburg (Speaker, 2012–2015) Moors An. Mulder Neppérus <Van Nieuwenhuizen> Nijkerken-de Haan Van Oosten Potters Van der Ree A. Rutte <M. Rutte> <Schippers> Schut-Welkzijn <Van der Steur> Straus Taverne Teeven Tellegen <Van Veen> Veldman <Verheijen> Visser Au. de Vries Vuijk <Weekers> Van Wijngaarden Van 't Wout Ziengs
Labour Party (PvdA – 35)	Kuiken Arib (Speaker, 2015–2017) Asante <Bonis> Bouwmeester Brouwer Çegerek <Van Dam> Van Dekken <O. van Dijk> <Dijsselbloem> Dikkers Eijsink Fokke Gorissen Groot Günal-Gezer <Hamer> <Heijnen> <Hilkens> Hoogland Jacobi <Jadnanansing> Kerstens <Klijnsma> Van Laar Leenders Maij Marcouch Mohandis Nijboer Oosenbrug <Plasterk> Recourt <Samsom> Servaes Tanamal <Timmermans> <Ünver> Van der Velde Vermeij Vermue Volp J. Vos M. Vos Al. de Vries Wolbert Ypma Yücel
Socialist Party (SP – 15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel J. van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen <Jansen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Merkies Van Nispen Van Raak Siderius Smaling <Smits> <Swinkels> Ulenbelt <De Wit>
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA – 13)	Van Haersma Buma Amhaouch Bruins Slot Geurts Heerma Van Helvert <Van Hijum> Keijzer Knops Ag. Mulder Omtzigt <Oskam> Rog Ronnes <De Rouwe> Van Toorenburg
Party for Freedom (PVV – 12)	Wilders Agema Beertema Bosma Van Dijck Fritsma <Gerbrands> De Graaf Graus Helder Klever Madlener De Roon
Democrats 66 (D66 – 12)	Pechtold Belhaj Bergkamp <Berndsen> P. Dijkstra <Hachchi> Koolmees Koşer Kaya Van Meenen <Schouw> Sjoerdsma Swinkels Van Veldhoven Verhoeven Van Weyenberg
Christian Union (CU – 5)	Segers Bruins Dik-Faber Schouten <Slob> Voordewind
GroenLinks (GL – 4)	Klaver (Leader, 2015–2017) <Ellemeet> Grashoff <Van Ojik> (Leader, 2012–2015) <Sap> (Leader, 2012) Van Tongeren Voortman
Reformed Political Party (SGP – 3)	Van der Staaij Bisschop Dijkgraaf
Party for the Animals (PvdD – 2)	Thieme Ouwehand <Wassenberg>
50PLUS (50+ – 1)	Krol <Baay-Timmerman>
Independent (Groep Bontes/Van Klaveren – 2)	Bontes Van Klaveren
Independent (Groep Kuzu/Öztürk – 2)	Kuzu Öztürk
Independent (Lid-Van Vliet – 1)	Van Vliet
Independent (Lid-Klein – 1)	Klein
Independent (Lid-Houwers – 1)	Houwers
Independent (Lid-Monasch – 1)	Monasch
Bold signifies the parliamentary leader (first mentioned) and the Speaker Angle brackets signify a replacement member or a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–12 Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2017–present See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015 Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2010–2012)
House of Representatives, 17 June 2010 – 19 September 2012
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD – 31)	Blok Aptroot Van Ark Azmani Van Beek Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink> Dijkhoff Elias Harbers Hennis-Plasschaert Houwers Huizing <De Krom> Leegte De Liefde Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg Mulder Neppérus <Nicolaï> Van Nieuwenhuizen <Rutte> Schaart <Schippers> Snijder-Hazelhoff Van der Steur Straus Taverne <Teeven> <Weekers> Ziengs <Zijlstra>
Labour Party (PvdA – 30)	Samsom Albayrak Arib Bouwmeester Çelik <Cohen> Van Dam Van Dekken Dijksma Dijsselbloem Dikkers Eijsink Groot Hamer Heijnen Hilkens Jacobi Jadnanansing Klijnsma <Kraneveldt> Kuiken De Lange <Leerdam> Marcouch Monasch Plasterk Recourt Smeets <Spekman> Timmermans Van der Veen Verbeet (Speaker) Vermeij Wolbert
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA – 21)	Van Haersma Buma <Atsma> <Bijleveld> <Bijsterveldt> Biskop Blanksma-van den Heuvel Van Bochove Bruins Slot Çörüz Ferrier Haverkamp Van Hijum Holtackers <De Jager> <Joldersma> <Klink> Knops Koopmans Koppejan Omtzigt Ormel De Rouwe Smilde Sterk Van Toorenburg Uitslag <Verburg> <Verhagen> Van der Werf
Party for Freedom (PVV – 20)	Wilders Agema Beertema Van den Besselaar Bontes Bosma Van Dijck Dille Driessen Elissen Fritsma Gerbrands Graus Helder De Jong Van Klaveren Lucassen De Mos De Roon <Sharpe> Van Vliet
Socialist Party (SP – 15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Irrgang Jansen <Janssen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Van Raak Smits Ulenbelt De Wit
Democrats 66 (D66 – 10)	Pechtold Berndsen Dijkstra Hachchi Van der Ham Koolmees Koşer Kaya Schouw Van Veldhoven Verhoeven
GroenLinks (GL – 10)	Sap <Van den Berge> Braakhuis Dibi El Fassed Van Gent Grashoff <Halsema> Klaver Peters Van Tongeren Voortman
Christian Union (CU – 5)	Slob Ortega <Rouvoet> Schouten Voordewind Wiegman
Reformed Political Party (SGP – 2)	Van der Staaij Dijkgraaf
Party for the Animals (PvdD – 2)	Thieme <Hazekamp> Ouwehand
Independent (Groep Kortenoeven/Hernandez – 2)	Kortenoeven Hernandez
Independent (Lid-Brinkman – 1)	Brinkman
Independent (Lid-Van Bemmel – 1)	Van Bemmel
Bold signifies the parliamentary leader (first mentioned) and the Speaker Angle brackets signify a replacement member or a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2006–10 Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–17 See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2006–2010)
House of Representatives, 30 November 2006 – 16 June 2010
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA – 41)	Van Geel Aasted-Madsen Algra Atsma <Balkenende> Bilder Biskop Blanksma-Van den Heuvel Van Bochove <Van de Camp> Çörüz Van Dijk <Donner> Eski Ferrier <Van Gennip> Van Haersma Buma Haverkamp <Hessels> <Van Heugten> Van Hijum <Van der Hoeven> Ten Hoopen Jager Joldersma Jonker <Van der Knaap> Knops Koopmans Koppejan <Kortenhorst> Mastwijk de Nerée tot Babberich Omtzigt Ormel De Pater-Van der Meer Pieper De Rouwe Schermers Schinkelshoek Schreijer-Pierik Smilde Spies Sterk Van Toorenburg Uitslag <Verburg> <Verhagen> Vietsch De Vries Van Vroonhoven-Kok <Wijn> Willemse-Van der Ploeg
Labour Party (PvdA – 33)	Hamer Albayrak Arib Besselink Blom Boelhouwer <Bos> Bouchibti Bouwmeester <Bussemaker> <Crone> Van Dam <Depla> Van Dijken <Dijksma> Dijsselbloem Eijsink Gill'ard Heerts Heijnen Jacobi Kalma <Koenders> Kraneveldt Kuiken <Laaper> Leerdam Linhard Roefs Samsom Smeets Spekman Tang <Tichelaar> Timmer <Timmermans> Van der Veen Verbeet (Speaker) Vermeij Vos Waalkens Wolbert <Wolfson> <Yücel>
Socialist Party (SP – 25)	Kant <Abel> Bashir Van Bommel Van Dijk Gerkens Van Gerven Gesthuizen <Van Gijlswijk> Irrgang Jansen Karabulut Langkamp Van Leeuwen Leijten Lempens Luijben Marijnissen Polderman Poppe Van Raak Roemer De Rooij <De Roos> Smits Ulenbelt Van Velzen de Wit
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD – 21)	Rutte Aptroot <Van Baalen> Van Beek Blok <Boekestijn> Ten Broeke Van der Burg Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink <Elias> Griffith Harbers Kamp De Krom Meeuwis Van Miltenburg Neppérus Nicolaï Remkes Schippers Snijder-Hazelhoff Teeven Weekers Zijlstra
Party for Freedom (PVV – 9)	Wilders Agema Bosma Brinkman Van Dijck Fritsma Graus <Madlener> De Mos De Roon
GroenLinks (GL – 7)	Halsema Azough Dibi <Diks> <Duyvendak> Van Gent Peters Sap Vendrik
Christian Union (CU – 6)	Slob Anker Cramer <Huizinga> Ortega <Rouvoet> Voordewind Wiegman
Democrats 66 (D66 – 3)	Pechtold Van der Ham Kaya
Party for the Animals (PvdD – 2)	Thieme Ouwehand
Reformed Political Party (SGP – 2)	Van der Vlies Van der Staaij
Independent (Lid-Verdonk – 1)	Verdonk
Bold signifies the parliamentary leader (first mentioned) and the Speaker Angle brackets signify a replacement member or a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–12

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