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Use of wood

Wood is a renewable and climate friendly raw material that is increasingly in demand. It is a goal to increase the use of wood to replace materials with a more detrimental impact on the climate.

Disability Benefits

Disability benefits from the National Insurance Scheme are intended to secure income for individuals whose earning capacity has been permanently reduced due to illness, injury, or defect.

What is Norway’s export control system?

Norway’s export control system is intended to ensure that defence-related products, technology and services are exported only from Norway in accordance with Norwegian security and defence policy. It also aims to prevent exports of dual-use items

Admission to studies

The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research determines rules for admission to education.

Bioenergy

Increased production and use of bioenergy is a high priority in Norway. Bioenergy is recovered from several types of biomass - among them forest-generated raw materials.

Information on the child

All parents will regularly be in contact with public bodies and need to obtain information on the child. The individual parent's right to information will depend on who has parental responsibility for the child.

Child maintenance

Parents have a duty to pay for their children irrespective of whether or not they live with them.

Parental disputes

Out of considiration for the child, it is important that the parents focus on the child’s needs and cooperate on parenting.

The Family Counselling Service

The family counselling service offers help to anyone who needs to talk about difficult issues in the family.

Parental benefit

Parental benefit is intended to ensure that the parents have an income during parental leave in connection with a birth or adoption. The right to parental benefit is accrued by the parents working.

Senior administrative staff

Cooperation with the Sami Parliament on international indigenous issues

The Government places great emphasis on discussing and negotiating about indigenous issues through close cooperation between the Government and representatives of indigenous people. Norwegian attitudes to international indigenous issues are

Agencies and Entities under the Ministry of Labour and Inclusion

The Speech from the Throne

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.

KOSTRA (Local governments-State-Reporting)

KOSTRA (Local governments-State-Reporting) is a national information system that provides information on the use of resources by the municipal and county authorities.

Departments

Administrative staff

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

Press centre

Welcome to the press center of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. On this page, we aim to accommodate easy and quick access to relevant information for the press and media.

Political staff

The political staff of the Ministries consists of state secretaries and political advisors. State secretaries are appointed in a State Council Meeting, while political advisors are hired by the Office of the Prime Minister. The political staff is

Administrative staff