On December 22, 2023, State Secretary Heijnen (Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management) informed the House of Representatives about the progress made on the Dutch battery strategy in 2023. This letter to Parliament has been supplemented with four reports on Respective Energy Storage System Safety, Battery Circularity Exploration, Safe and Sustainable by Design for batteries and labor market shortage in the battery sector. The letter to parliament and reports were created with contributions from RAI Automotive and Battery Competence Cluster - NL.