Analysis of Flemish Ministerial Cabinets and Executive Staff: Decrease in Size and Comparison with Other Governments

2023-10-14 04:45:00

In the north of the country, another category of staff is not included in the composition or in the budget of the cabinets: executive staff.

Thus, as the spokesperson for Minister-President Rudi Vervoort rightly points out: “In Flanders for example, the Flemish Minister-President does not mention on his website the executive staff (secretaries, drivers, employees of the indicator service, cleaning technicians, ushers and hosts and hostesses). […] We cannot therefore compare with our organization chart […] which mentions the entire composition of my cabinets: deputy directors, collaborators, advisors but also all operational staff.

And for good reason: since ldecree of the Flemish government of July 24, 2009it is provided that a cabinet cannot exceed 26 members (41 for those of the minister-president and vice-minister-presidents) with one exception: “technical support tasks within offices (cleaning, reception, catering, shipping, information and communication technologies, commissary, transport, etc.) can be entrusted to members of the staff of the Flemish administration“, writes Marie Göransson in her analysis published in 2015.

Contacted by the Décrypte team, the Flemish government has not yet indicated the number of seconded people in these different offices.

In any event, this decree will have lower the number more than 35% of the total number of firms between 2008 and 2011, indicates the Court of Auditors.

This explains why the Flemish ministerial cabinets are the least well-stocked of the six governments with 30.2 FTE members on average, compared to 50.5 for the Walloon government, 43.8 for that of Brussels-Capital, 37.4 for the federal government. , 46.4 for that of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and 9.23 for that of the German-speaking community.

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