Changes among the state secretaries

In today’s Council of State, The Crown Prince Regent has honourably discharged Mr. Karl Kristian Bekeng, Mr. Ole Henrik Krat Bjørkholt and Ms. Ellen Rønning-Arnesen as state secretaries to Minister of Health and Care services, Ms. Ingvild Kjerkol.

Mr. Bekeng and Ms. Rønning-Arnesen are appointed state secretaries to Minister of Health and Care services, Mr. Jan Christian Vestre.

Mr. Tore O. Sandvik is honourably discharged as state secretary to Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Jan Christian Vestre, and is appointed again as state secretary to Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Cecilie Myrseth.

Ms. Kristina Sigurdsdottir Hansen and Mr. Even Tronstad Sagebakken has been honourably discharged as state secretaries to Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy, Ms. Cecilie Myrseth. Ms. Sigurdsdottir Hansen and Mr. Tronstad Sagebakken are appointed state secretaries to Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy, Ms. Marianne Sivertsen Næss.

Mr. Vegard Grøslie Wennesland is appointed as state secretary to Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Cecilie Myrseth.


The government represents the Labour Party (Lab.) and Centre Party (Cent.) The state secretaries are:

To Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Lab.)
Mr. Halvard Ingebrigtsen (Lab.)
Ms. Kristine Joy Nordenson Kallset (Lab.)
Ms. Astrid Scharning Huitfeldt (Lab.)
Mr. Wegard Håkon Harsvik (Lab.)
Mr. Thomas Boe Hornburg (Lab.)
Mr. Halvard Hølleland (Lab.)
Mr. Kristoffer Thoner (Lab.)
Mr. Erling Emil Laugsand (Cent.)
Ms. Ingunn Trosholmen (Lab.)

To Minister of Finance Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Cent.)
Mr. Erlend Trygve Grimstad (Cent.)
Mr. Lars Erik Bartnes (Cent.)
Mr. Lars Ravn Vangen (Cent.)
Ms. Ellen Reitan (Lab.)
Mr. Geir Indrefjord (Cent)

To Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion Tonje Brenna (Lab.)
Mr. Kjetil Vevle (Lab.)
Ms. Ellen Bakken (Lab.)
Mr. Per Olav Skurdal Hopsø (Lab.)

To Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim (Cent.)
Ms. Bjørg Sandkjær (Cent.)

To Minister of Health and Care services Jan Christian Vestre (Lab.)
Mr. Karl Kristian Bekeng (Lab.)
Ms. Ellen Moen Rønning-Arnesen (Lab.)

To Minister of Children and Families Kjersti Toppe (Cent.)
Ms. Trine Fagervik (Cent.)
Ms. Eli Blakstad (Cent.)

To Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide (Lab.)
Mr. Eivind Vad Petersson (Lab.)
Mr. Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik (Lab.)
Ms. Maria Varteressian (Lab.)

To Minister of Defence Bjørn Arild Gram (Cent.)
Ms. Anne Marie Aanerud (Cent.)
Ms. Marie Lamo Vikanes (Cent.)

To Minister of Transport Jon-Ivar Nygård (Lab.)
Mr. Tom Kalsås (Lab.)
Mr. Bent-Joacim Bentzen (Cent.)
Ms. Abel Cecilie Knibe Kroglund (Lab.)

To Minister of Justice and Public Security Emilie Enger Mehl (Cent.)
Mr. Hans-Petter Aasen (Cent.)
Mr. John-Erik Vika (Cent.)
Mr. Even Eriksen (Lab.)
Mr. Sigve Bolstad (Cent.)

To Minister of Energy Terje Aasland (Lab.)
Ms. Elisabeth Sæther (Lab.)
Ms. Astrid Bergmål (Lab.)

To Minister of Culture and Equality Lubna Jaffery (Lab.)
Mr. Even Aleksander Hagen (Lab.)
Mr. Erlend Kaldestad Hanstveit (Lab.)

To Minister of Agriculture and Food Geir Pollestad (Cent.)
Ms. Wenche Westberg (Cent.)

To Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Erling Sande (Cent.)
Mr. Ole Gustav Narud (Cent.)
Ms. Nancy Charlotte Porsanger Anti (Cent.)
Ms. Sigrun Wiggen Prestbakmo (Cent.)

To Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance Karianne O. Tung (Lab.)
Ms. Gunn Karin Gjul (Lab.)
Mr. Tomas Norvoll (Lab.)

To Minister of Trade and Industry Cecilie Myrseth (Lab.)
Mr. Tore O. Sandvik (Lab.)
Mr. Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (Lab.)

To Minister of Education Kari Nessa Nordtun (Lab.)
Mr. Sindre Lysø (Lab.)
Ms. Synnøve Mjeldheim Skaar (Lab.)

To Minister of Climate and Environment Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (Lab.)
Ms. Ragnhild Sjoner Syrstad (Lab.)
Ms. Kjersti Bjørnstad (Cent.)

To Minister of Research and Higher Education Oddmund Hoel (Cent.)
Mr. Ivar B. Prestbakmo (Cent.)

To Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy Marianne Sivertsen Næss (Lab.)
Ms. Kristina Sigurdsdottir Hansen (Lab.)
Mr. Even Tronstad Sagebakken (Lab.)