The Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister is a political and bureaucratic office that assists the Cabinet of Norway and the Prime Minister of Norway

Prime Minister of Norway

The Prime Minister of Norway is the political leader of Norway and the Head of His Majesty's Government. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Stortinget , to their political party, and ultimately the...

 in the leadership of the Cabinet and Government. It has since 2005 been led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg

is a Norwegian politician, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and the current Prime Minister of Norway. Having assumed office on 17 October 2005, Stoltenberg previously served as Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001....

 (Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

). Minister and Chief of Staff is Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, and was a parliamentary representative for Finnmark from 1985 to 2009. He served as Minister of Fisheries from 1996 to 1997 and Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg...

. They are deputized by eight state secretaries, Mina Gerhardsen

Mina Gerhardsen

Mina Gerhardsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.She is the daughter of Rune Gerhardsen and Tove Strand, and granddaughter of Einar Gerhardsen. She led the Oslo branch of Natur og Ungdom from 1993 to 1995, and was deputy leader of the Workers' Youth League in Oslo in 1997. She took...

 Inger-Anne Ravlum, Snorre Wikstrøm

Snorre Wikstrøm

Snorre Wikstrøm is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He enrolled at the University of Oslo in 1990 and graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1995. He was a deputy member of Hedmark county council from 1991 to 1999, leader of the Workers' Youth League in Hedmark from 1992 to 1994 and...

, Svein Fjellheim

Svein Fjellheim

Svein Fjellheim is a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.He was educated as a sausage maker in 1965. From 1981 he worked as a trade union secretary in Stavanger, and from 1995 in Rogaland county. He was a member of the national board of the Norwegian Union of Food,...

, Hans Kristian Amundsen

Hans Kristian Amundsen

Hans Kristian Amundsen is a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.In January 2011 he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. In May 2011 he moved to the Office of the Prime Minister. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of...

 and Rita Skjærvik

Rita Skjærvik

Rita Skjærvik is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.She started her political career in the Workers' Youth League, as deputy leader of that organization in Sør-Trøndelag, from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 she was elected to Rissa municipal council...

 (all Labour), Dagfinn Sundsbø

Dagfinn Sundsbø

Dagfinn Sundsbø is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.He served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the terms 1993–1997, 1997–2001, 2001–2005 and 2005–2009...

 (Centre Party

Centre Party (Norway)

The Centre Party is a centrist and agrarian political party in Norway, founded in 1920. The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralised economic development and political decision-making.From its...

) and Tor Brostigen

Tor Brostigen

Tor Brostigen is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.He finished secondary school in 1976, and worked as a firefighter in Oslo from 1978 to 1988. From 1989 to 1995 he worked in Nei til EU, and from 1998 to 2009 he was an adviser in the Socialist Left Party...

 (Socialist Left Party

Socialist Left Party (Norway)

The Socialist Left Party or SV, is a Norwegian left-wing political party. At one point one of the smallest parties in Parliament, it became the fourth-largest political party in Norway for the first time in the 2001 parliamentary election, and has been so ever since...

). The office has about 60 employees.

History

Since the establishment of the first Norwegian government, in 1814, the Prime Minister has had secretaries to help him with tasks, though these were not collectively assigned to his office until 1945. The office was given the current title in 1950, but not formally created until 1956. In 1969 the central secretariat for the entire cabinet also became part of the Office of the Prime Minister.

External links

• Official web site