Vaststelling van de begrotingsstaten van het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (VIII) voor het jaar 2016

This is a Dutch parliamentary procedure on the formal adoption of the 2016 budget statements (begrotingsstaten) for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, designated section VIII of the national budget. The budget sets out the planned spending and revenue for the ministry's policy areas, such as schools, higher education, research, arts and heritage for that year. Based on metadata only, not the full legislative text. The adoption primarily affects the ministry's programmes and the bodies funded through them, including schools, universities, research institutions and cultural organisations in the Netherlands. Citizens are affected indirectly through public funding levels for education and culture.