Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
	; Current headquarters, the JuBi Building complex
Ministry overview
Formed	12 March 1798
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Headquarters	Turfmarkt 147, The Hague
Employees	3,000
Annual budget	€3.8 billion (2018)
Minister responsible	Pieter Heerma, Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations;
Deputy Ministers responsible	Eric van der Burg, State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Effective Government; Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan, Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning;
Ministry executive	Vincent Roozen, Secretary-General;
Website	Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Dutch: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties; BZK) is the Netherlands' ministry responsible for domestic policy, civil service, public administration, elections, relations with local governments, intelligence, and kingdom relations.

The minister of the interior and kingdom relations is a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands. The ministry was created in 1798 as the Department of Internal Police, to monitor the state of dikes, roads, and waters of the Batavian Republic. It became the Ministry of the Interior in 1876 and had several name changes before adopting its current name in 1998.