News item | 21-05-2025 | 10:51 AM
Minister Judith Uitermark and State Secretary Zolt Szabó of the Interior and Kingdom Relations sent the annual report Operations Rijk 2024 to the Lower House. This report provides insight into the government -wide developments in the field of, for example, staff, purchasing and information provision.
The figures are about 2024, in which the current cabinet started halfway. Effect of the ambitions from the government program, such as the cutback of 22% on the central government, are not yet visible. The year 2024 is the baseline measurement for this.
Staff and vacancies
The report shows that the number of national officials increased by 6.2% in 2024 compared to the year before, to 157,019 FTEs. Compared to the previous year, the percentage of hiring has remained the same. In 2024, 16.5% fewer vacancies were opened at the central government. Judith Uitermark: “For the coming years, we have agreed to work towards a more effective and efficient government, which is as small as possible and as large as necessary. For this we focus on less bureaucracy, fewer rules, less administration and accountability costs and more works as one central government. Every ministry does this in its own way, where they are always taking care of it and is always critical and critical and always critical of watching the vacancies critically and to be critical and always critically seeing the vacancies critically and to be critical and always critically seeing the vacancies critically and to be critical and always critically seeing it critically and to be critical of critically critically seeing it critically and to be critical of it critically and that it is always critical of it to be critical of it critically and that they are constantly critical of it and that they are constantly critical of seeing it critically and that they are critical of critically critical and to be critical of it critically. are.”
Furthermore, the figures show that the rising line of the proportion of women in the (sub) top continues: in 2024 that was 40.9%. The aim is 45-55% in 2026. There are also more employees who have a job under the Job Agreement Act, although the government still lags behind the objective here.
Craftsmanship and integrity as a basis for trust
In the government program, the government has agreed to work on a future -proof central government, who is doing the work well for society and is for every citizen. That requires something from the central government as a whole, and from each individual official. That is why the office was renewed in 2024 and paid attention to official craftsmanship in various ways. This is intensified by the design of a basic training for every official.
The same applies to increasing social safety and attention to integrity; An important basis for doing the work well. It turned out that 10% of civil servants have to deal with racism, and the annual report appears to be more integrity incidents than the year before. That is why preparations for a government -wide complaints committee and integrity committee are in full swing.
More WOO requests
The government attaches great importance to a transparent government, and is working on better access to government information through the Open Government Act (WOO). In 2024, the number of documents published at the government increased sharply and the number of WOO requests submitted increased again. More requests were handled and the number of forfeited penalty payments in WOO requests fell. Nevertheless, many WOO requests were handled outside the legal term. Since January 2025, the Rijksdashboard WOO requests has been online so that the handling of requests can be better followed.
The annual report Operations Rijk 2024 can be read here.