Changes among the state secretaries
Press release | Date: 23/08/2024 | Office of the Prime Minister
In today’s Council of State, The King has honourably discharged Mr. Tore O. Sandvik as state secretary to Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Cecilie Myrseth, as of 2 September 2024. Mr. Sandvik is appointed as acting Minister of Climate and Environment from the same date.
Ms. Kjersti Bjørnstad and Sigrun Gjerløw Aasland are appointed as acting state secretaries to acting Minister of Climate and Environment, Mr. Tore O. Sandvik, in the period that Minister of Climate and Environment, Mr. Andras Bjelland Eriksen, settles parental leave.
The government represents the Labour Party (Lab.) and Centre Party (Cent.) The state secretaries are from 2 September 2024:
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.)
Ms. Ellen Reitan (Lab.)
Mr. Geir Indrefjord (Cent.)
Mr. Skjalg Erik Fjellheim (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.)
Mr. Usman Ahmad Mushtaq (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.) - Leave of absence 26.08.24-22.12.24
Ms. Abel Cecilie Knibe Kroglund (Lab.)
Mr. Stein Mathisen (Cent.) – Acting 02.09.24-22.12.24
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.) – To 02.09.24
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 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.)
To Acting Minister of Climate and Environment Tore O. Sandvik (Lab.)
Ms. Kjersti Bjørnstad (Cent.) – Acting 02.09.24 – 31.12.24
Ms. Sigrun Gjerløw Aasland (Lab.) – Acting 02.09.24 – 31.12.24