Ard van der Steur

Ard van der Steur

Gerard Adriaan (Ard) van der Steur (born October 7, 1969 in Haarlem) is a Dutch politician and lawyer. On March 20, 2015 he became Minister of Security and Justice. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) he has been an MP since June 17, 2010. He focuses on matters of judiciary, constitutional and administrative law.

He was a member of the municipal council of the former municipality of Warmond from 2002 to 2006 and has been a member of its successor the municipal council of Teylingen since 2006. In both cases he was respectively is also VVD fraction leader.

Van der Steur studied law at Leiden University.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

(Dutch) Ard van der Steur personal website
(Dutch) House of Representatives biography
(Dutch) People's Party for Freedom and Democracy website

Ministers of Justice of the Netherlands

Ministry of Security and Justice

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Second Rutte cabinet (2012–present)

^{Preceded by: First Rutte cabinet ·}

Prime Minister	Mark Rutte General Affairs

Deputy Prime Minister	Lodewijk Asscher Social Affairs and Employment

Ministers	Ronald Plasterk Interior and Kingdom Relations Frans Timmermans Foreign Affairs) (2012–2014 Bert Koenders Foreign Affairs) (from 2014 Jeroen Dijsselbloem Finance Ivo Opstelten Security and Justice) (2012–2015 Stef Blok Security and Justice) (Ad interim Ard van der Steur Security and Justice) (from 2015 Henk Kamp Economic Affairs Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert Defence Edith Schippers Health, Welfare and Sport Jet Bussemaker Education, Culture and Science Melanie Schultz van Haegen Infrastructure and the Environment

Minister without portfolio	Stef Blok Housing and the Central Government Sector Lilianne Ploumen Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

State Secretaries	Frans Weekers Finance) (2012–2014 Eric Wiebes Finance) (from 2014 Fred Teeven Security and Justice) (2012–2015 Klaas Dijkhoff Security and Justice) (from 2015 Co Verdaas Economic Affairs) (2012 Sharon Dijksma Economic Affairs) (from 2012 Martin van Rijn Health, Welfare and Sport Sander Dekker Education, Culture and Science Wilma Mansveld Infrastructure and the Environment Jetta Klijnsma Social Affairs and Employment

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD - 40)	Azmani Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé R. Dijkstra Duisenberg Elias Harbers Heerema De Lange De Liefde Van der Linde Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg (President) Moors An. Mulder Neppérus Nijkerken-de Haan Van Oosten Potters Rutte Schut-Welkzijn Straus Taverne Tellegen Teeven Van Veen Veldman Venrooy-van Ark Visser De Vries Vuijk Van Wijngaarden Van 't Wout Ziengs Zijlstra

Labour Party (PvdA - 36)	Arib Bouwmeester Çegerek Van Dam Van Dekken O. Van Dijk Dikkers Eijsink Fokke Groot Günal-Gezer Hoogland Jacobi Jadnanansing Kerstens Kuiken Van Laar Leenders Maij Marcouch Mohandis Monasch Nijboer Oosenbrug Rebel-Volp Recourt Samsom Servaes Tanamal Vermeij J. Vos M. Vos De Vries Wolbert Ypma Yücel

Socialist Party (SP - 15)	Bashir Van Bommel J. Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Merkies Van Nispen Van Raak Roemer Siderius Smaling Ulenbelt

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - 13)	Bruins Slot Geurts Van Haersma Buma Heerma Van Helvert Keijzer Knops Ag. Mulder Omtzigt Oskam Rog De Rouwe Van Toorenburg

Party for Freedom (PVV - 12)	(Agema) Beertema Bosma Van Dijck Fritsma Gerbrands De Graaf Graus Helder Klever Madlener De Roon Wilders

Democrats 66 (D66 - 12)	Bergkamp Berndsen P. Dijkstra Hachchi Koolmees Van Meenen Pechtold Schouw Sjoerdsma Van Veldhoven Verhoeven Van Weyenberg

ChristianUnion (CU - 5)	Dik-Faber Schouten Segers Slob Voordewind

GreenLeft (GL - 4)	Klaver Van Ojik Van Tongeren Voortman

Reformed Political Party (SGP - 3)	Bisschop Dijkgraaf Van der Staaij

Party for the Animals (PvdD - 2)	Ouwehand Thieme

50PLUS (50+ - 1)	Krol

Independents (Group Bontes/Van Klaveren) (Bontes/Van Klaveren - 2)	Bontes Van Klaveren

Independents (Group Kuzu/Öztürk) (Kuzu/Öztürk - 2)	Kuzu Öztürk

Independent (Member Klein) (Klein - 1)	Klein

Independent (Member Van Vliet) (Van Vliet - 1)	Van Vliet

Independent (Member Houwers) (Houwers - 1)	Houwers

Bold signifies the parliamentary group leader Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member See also: Current MPs of the Senate of the Netherlands