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
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	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]

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

(in Dutch) Begroting 2018, Rijksoverheid
"Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (VVD) heeft alle bestuurslagen gehad" (in Dutch). NOS. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

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