House of Representatives news

Every year on the third Wednesday in May, Accountability day, the Cabinet presents a survey of the financial state of affairs with regard to the previous budget year to the House of Representatives.

The President of the Senate, mr Fred de Graaf, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, ms Anouchka van Miltenburg, have launched the joint website www.staten-generaal.nl.

On Wednesday 10 April the temporary committee on house prices presented its final report. The committee has carried out an investigation into twenty years of rising property prices in the Netherlands and five years of falling prices.

The House has adopted a motion put forward by Mr Duco Hoogland MP (Labour Party, PvdA) expressing disapproval of  the fourth EU railway package.

Nine members of the standing committee  for foreign affairs visit the People’s Republic  of China  during the May recess.  

On Wednesday May 15 – Accountability Day – the Minister of Finance presents the National Financial Annual Report and the ministries’ annual reports in the House of Representatives.  

From Tuesday 5 March until Friday 8 March 2013 the Inter-parliamentary Kingdom Consultation between the parliaments of the Netherlands, Curacao, Aruba and Sint Maarten takes place in The Hague.

On Tuesday 7 March 2013 the annual debate on the State of Affairs in the European Union will take place.

On Tuesday 12 Februari 2013 Mr Titus Corlăţean, minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, paid a visit to the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives will be in recess from Friday 15 February 2013 until Monday 25 February 2013. The next plenary debate will be on Tuesday 26 February 2013.

The new King will be sworn in and inaugurated at a public and joint session of the two Houses of the States General, to be held in the Nieuwe Kerk Church in the capital city, Amsterdam.

On Tuesday 29 January 2 pm, at the beginning of the plenary sitting, the Speaker of the House of Representatives briefly considered the announcement of Her Majesty the Queen to abdicate on 30 April 2013.

On Wednesday 10 January 2013 the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ms Anouchka van Miltenburg, paid a visit to Brussels.

On Thursday 10 and Friday 11 January 2013 the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ms Anouchka van Miltenburg, paid a visit to Luxembourg.

After a long day of debating on Thursday 20 December, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ms Anouchka van Miltenburg, closed the year 2012.