The three parties forming the next Dutch government have reached agreement on dividing up 18 ministerial roles and 10 junior minister jobs between them.

D66, as the biggest party, will provide the prime minister in the form of Rob Jetten, as well as the foreign trade and development aid, housing, education, agriculture, climate and social affairs ministers.

The VVD will take justice, finance, defence, health, employment and infrastructure, while the CDA will fill foreign affairs, immigration, home affairs, economic affairs and long-term care.

Each party will also have three junior ministers spread across the various ministries. The tenth junior minister is expected to be non-aligned Sandra Palmen, who was charged with sorting out the childcare benefit scandal by the previous cabinet and is tipped to stay in office.

The current finance minister, Eelco Heinen, will also remain in his post.

The new cabinet has opted not to change the names of ministries or job titles devised by the outgoing cabinet. This means the immigration, housing and climate ministers will work within other departments with their own budgets.

“We are going for a decisive and tight government and that means we are not thinking up any new ministries,” Jetten told reporters.

The new ministers, he said, will have to be “driven” and focused on solving problems. They must also realise they will need to work with the opposition, given that the coalition does not have a majority in either house of parliament, he said.

The rest of the ministerial line-up will be decided – and leaked – in the coming days ahead of the presentation of the cabinet to the king on February 23, if not before.

CDA leader Henri Bontenbal has said he will remain in the lower house of parliament. D66 also needs to find a new parliamentary party leader to replace Jetten, as will the VVD if Dilan Yesilgöz opts to join the cabinet as expected.