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  • State secretary Bhanuja Rasiah (Labour Party)

    Political staff Office of the Prime Minister
    Portrett av Bhanuja Rasiah.

    Appointed: 17/10/2025

  • The Speech from the Throne

    List page Office of the Prime Minister

    When the Storting (the Parliament) assembles, it is constituted and then formally opened by the King. The King reads the King's Speech. The King's Speech expresses the main lines of the Government's policy for the coming year.

  • Administrative staff

    List page Office of the Prime Minister

    The permanent staff of the Office consists of about 80 persons in three departments, the Department of Administrative Affairs, the Department of Domestic Affairs and the Department of International Affairs. The Office also has a communications

  • History of the Office of the Prime Minister

    09/10/2014 Article Office of the Prime Minister

    Since 1814, Norway's prime minister has had secretarial assistance also in other than his constitutional tasks, long handled by the State Secretariat/Secretariat to the Council of State. When Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold in 1939 was relieved

  • State secretary and National security advisor Thomas Boe Hornburg (Labour Party)

    Political staff Office of the Prime Minister
    Thomas Boe Hornburg

    State secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister from 14 October 2021. National security advisor from December 2025.

    Appointed: 14/10/2021

    E-mail tbho@smk.dep.no

    Phone +47 22 24 40 08

  • Changes among the political advisers

    14/03/2022 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    The Office of the Prime Minister has appointed Ms. Emilie Kirkeby-Garstad as political adviser to Minister of Justice and Public Security Emilie Enger Mehl.

  • Changes in the Government

    07/03/2022 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In the Council of State today, the King has made changes in the Government.

  • Norway to participate as guest country in G20

    01/12/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    Brazil has now taken over the G20 Presidency for the next year and has invited Norway to participate as a guest country in the G20’s work. ‘Brazil’s invitation to Norway to participate in the G20 the next year represents a major vote of confidence.

  • Norway to provide a further NOK 500 million in support to Moldova

    01/06/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Norway will provide NOK 500 million in support to Moldova in 2023. The war in Ukraine is having a severe impact on Moldova, and the funding will be used to help the Moldovan authorities to deal with the crisis.

  • Changes among the state secretaries

    13/10/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In today’s Council of State, The King has honourably discharged Mr. Geir Indrefjord as state secretary to Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ms. Emilie Enger Mehl. Mr. Indrefjord is appointed again as state secretary to Minister of Finance, Mr

  • Changes among the state secretaries

    28/06/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In today’s Council of State, The King has made changes among the state secretaries.

  • Changes among the political advisers

    03/07/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    The Office of the Prime Minister has appointed Ms. Ingrid Nikoline Sand as political adviser to Minister of Defence, Bjørn Arild Gram.

  • German Vise-Chancellor visits Norway in January

    22/12/2022 Press release Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Office of the Prime Minister

    Germanys Vise-Chancellor Robert Habeck visits Norway 5th and 6th of January 2023. Habeck will amongst other discuss Norwegian-German industry- and energy collaboration with the Norwegian Prime minister and other ministers, attend The Confederation

  • The Norwegian Government asks the municipalities to settle 35 000 refugees in 2023

    25/11/2022 Press release Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion

    The war in Ukraine is ongoing, and millions of people have had to flee from their home country. The Norwegian Government is now asking Norwegian municipalities to prepare to receive many refugees next year as well.

  • Changes among the state secretaries

    29/09/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In today’s Council of State, The King has extended the constitution of Ms. Synnøve Mjeldheim Skaar as state secretary to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

  • Changes among the state secretaries

    15/09/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In today’s Council of State, The King has honourably discharged Ms. Maria Schumacher Walberg as state secretary to Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, Ms. Marte Mjøs Persen.

  • Changes among the political advisers

    29/09/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    Ms. Eirin Kristin Kjær resigns as political adviser to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Anniken Huitfeldt, as of 30 September 2023.

  • Prime Minister Støre appointed goodwill ambassador for global sustainability voyage

    24/11/2021 News story Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Over a period of 19 months, the Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl will sail over 55 000 nautical miles and visit 36 ports across the world. Its voyage to circumnavigate the globe has been given the name the ‘One Ocean Expedition’. Prime

  • New political adviser

    23/11/2021 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    The Office of the Prime Minister has appointed Ms. Siv Sætran as political adviser to Minister of Agriculture and Food Sandra Borch as of 23 November 2021.

  • A greener industrial initiative for Norway

    28/09/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

    The Norwegian Government’s Green Industrial Initiative will guide Norway’s economy through its greatest transition in modern times. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre, and Minister of Agriculture and

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