He has served as State Secretary for Legal Protection in the Schoof cabinet since July 2024, on behalf of the New Social Contract (NSC) party.

[1] After the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB formed the Schoof cabinet, Struycken was sworn in as State Secretary for Legal Protection on 2 July 2024, succeeding Franc Weerwind.

[1][2] He was nominated on behalf of NSC, which had been founded the year before by Pieter Omtzigt, but Struycken said he would not become a member of the party.

[4] Following a pilot by his predecessor, Struycken worked on a bill to offer free legal assistance for parents facing the out-of-home placement of their children or the termination of their parental authority, along with other reforms to prioritize reintegration and preserve sibling bonds.

[5] His father was a professor in private international law at Radboud University Nijmegen, and his grandfather, Teun Struycken (1906–1977), served as interior and justice minister in the 1950s and 1960s for the Catholic People's Party (KVP).