Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (Netherlands)
The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
on 14 October 2010.
History
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The Ministry of VROM was established as the ministry of Reconstruction and Public Housing (Dutch: Wederopbouw en Volkshuisvesting) in 1947, to coordinate the reconstruction of the Netherlands after the
Second World War
. Its main goal in this period was to build enough housing. In 1958 the ministry was renamed Public Housing and Construction Industry (Dutch: Volkshuisvesting en Bouwnijverheid).
In the 1965 the ministry was renamed Public Housing and Spatial Planning (Dutch: Volkshuisvesting en Ruimtelijke Ordening).
densely populated Netherlands made centralized coordination of land use necessary. The ministry began to publish coordinate the land use policies of provinces and municipalities. Urban renewal
also became an important issue for the ministry.
In 1982 the ministry was renamed Public Housing and Spatial Planning and the Environment. The environment has previously been a part of the portfolio of the
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. With rising environmental consciousness the environment became the most important issue for the ministry. The ministry also bears responsibility for international environmental policy. Since 2006 the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
is an agency of this ministry.
Ministers
First Lubbers cabinet
- VVD)
- State secretary: Gerrit Brokx (CDA)
Second Lubbers cabinet
- Ed Nijpels, 1986-1989 (VVD)
- State secretary: Enneüs Heerma (CDA)
Third Lubbers cabinet
- PvdA)
- State secretary: Enneüs Heerma (CDA)
First Kok cabinet
- Margreeth de Boer, 1994-1998 (PvdA)
- State secretary: Dick Tommel (D66)
- State secretary: Dick Tommel (
Second Kok cabinet
- Jan Pronk, 1998-2002 (PvdA)
- State secretary: Johan Remkes (VVD)
- Henk Kamp, 2002-2003 (VVD)
- State secretary: Pieter van Geel (CDA)
- Sybilla Dekker, 2003-2006 (VVD)
- State secretary: Pieter van Geel (CDA)
- Sybilla Dekker, 2006 (VVD), resigned
- Pieter Winsemius, 2006–2007
- State secretary: Pieter van Geel (CDA)
- Jacqueline Cramer, 2007-2010 (PvdA)
- ChristenUnie)
- Minister without Portfoliofor Housing, Neighbourhoods and Integration (resigned)
- Minister without Portfoliofor Housing, Neighbourhoods and Integration
- Minister without Portfoliofor Housing, Neighbourhoods and Integration