Bigger hole in education budget
In the coming years, the Cabinet is expecting setbacks of around 400 million euros per year for education. The cause is higher pupil and student numbers than expected. The cover for this has yet to be completed this spring.
For 2017, the cabinet expected a setback of 150 million euros last Budget Day, for which cutbacks still had to be found. However, according to the spring memorandum, the gap is larger, namely 189 million euros. On top of this, there was also a postponed cutback of more than 200 million euros from previous years. This was covered by windfalls at other posts, the Ministry of Finance reports in the spring memorandum as follows:
However, there is still no coverage for the years after that. In 2018, this concerns a postponed cut of 244 million euros plus a setback of 227 million euros for the higher number of participants.
The outgoing cabinet has yet to come up with a solution for this this spring, whereby it is unclear whether there will be windfalls or whether this will result in cuts in the budget of schools.
Silly
On Prinsjesdag responded AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen is already indignant about these cutbacks. “For example, the cabinet is saddling the successor to education minister Bussemaker with a cost-cutting task right from the start,” says Verheggen. "It is ridiculous to pass on cutbacks to your successor in an election year."
