Changed allocation of purposes and activities to expenditure areas
Changed allocation of purposes and activities across expenditure areas
What's at stake: The division into expenditure areas determines which budget frame the money is allocated within and which committee prepares the appropriations, which affects the Riksdag's insight into and control over the activities and the ability to compare spending across years. The issue particularly concerns how intelligence activities are presented in the state budget.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether the Riksdag should approve the proposed changes to which purposes and activities belong to which expenditure area, including between areas 2 and 24, between area 6 Defence and societal preparedness and area 5 International cooperation, between areas 22 and 24, and within area 20, or whether the specific transfer of intelligence activities from area 6 to area 5 should be rejected.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee has no objection to the proposed changes in how purposes and activities are allocated across expenditure areas, and notes that both the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Defence consider that the proposals concerning area 5 International cooperation and area 6 Defence and societal preparedness should be approved. The committee therefore backs the proposals in the bill and in the Riksdag Board's submission and turns down the motion. It also points out that the approved list should be supplemented, among other things by moving the Accounting Standards Board and public procurement from area 2 to area 24, removing Transport Analysis from area 22 and taking up the national implementation of the 2030 Agenda under area 20, and considers it sufficient to report only the changes rather than the entire list every year.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (V, MP)
The reservation (V, MP) wants the Riksdag to reject the part of the proposal that moves intelligence activities from area 6 Defence and societal preparedness to area 5 International cooperation, while approving the other proposed changes to the allocation of purposes and activities.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
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S–
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C–
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KD–
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YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: approving what the committee proposes and rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by V, MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
Vown reservation
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No 0/21/0/0
S
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Yes 105/0/0/1
MPown reservation
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No 0/18/0/0
C
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Yes 24/0/0/0
L
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Yes 16/0/0/0
KD
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Yes 18/0/0/1
M
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Yes 66/0/0/0
SD
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Yes 70/0/0/0
Committee proposal
The Riksdag approves
a) the government's proposal to
1. change the purposes and activities that shall be included in expenditure area 2 Public Economy and Financial Management and expenditure area 24 Business (section 11.1 in the proposition),
2. change the purposes and activities that shall be included in expenditure area 6 Defence and Civil Protection and expenditure area 5 International Cooperation (section 11.2 in the proposition),
3. change the purposes and activities that shall be included in expenditure area 22 Communications and expenditure area 24 Business (section 11.3 in the proposition),
b) the Riksdag Board's proposal to
1. change the purposes and activities that shall be included in expenditure area 2 Public Economy and Financial Management and expenditure area 24 Business (section 4.2.6 in the statement),
2. change the purposes and activities that shall be included in expenditure area 20 Climate, Environment and Nature (section 4.2.6 in the statement).
Thereby the Riksdag approves proposition 2025/26:100 points 2-4 and statement 2025/26:RS5 points 11 and 12, and rejects motion
2025/26:4118 by Daniel Helldén et al. (MP) request 2.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen godkänner
a) regeringens förslag till
1. ändring av ändamål och verksamheter som ska innefattas i utgiftsområde 2 Samhällsekonomi och finansförvaltning och utgiftsområde 24 Näringsliv (avsnitt 11.1 i propositionen),
2. ändring av ändamål och verksamheter som ska innefattas i utgiftsområde 6 Försvar och samhällets krisberedskap och utgiftsområde 5 Internationell samverkan (avsnitt 11.2 i propositionen),
3. ändring av ändamål och verksamheter som ska innefattas i utgiftsområde 22 Kommunikationer och utgiftsområde 24 Näringsliv (avsnitt 11.3 i propositionen),
b) riksdagsstyrelsens förslag till
1. ändring av ändamål och verksamheter som ska innefattas i utgiftsområde 2 Samhällsekonomi och finansförvaltning och utgiftsområde 24 Näringsliv (avsnitt 4.2.6 i framställningen),
2. ändring av ändamål och verksamheter som ska innefattas i utgiftsområde 20 Klimat, miljö och natur (avsnitt 4.2.6 i framställningen).
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2025/26:100 punkterna 2-4 och framställning 2025/26:RS5 punkterna 11 och 12 samt avslår motion
2025/26:4118 av Daniel Helldén m.fl. (MP) yrkande 2.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag approved the government's and the Riksdag Board's proposal for a changed allocation of purposes and activities in expenditure areas in the state budget.
Decisions on which purposes and activities shall be included in an expenditure area shall be made in connection with decisions made in response to the economic spring proposition. The changes are made partly in light of the government's intention to implement certain changes in the agency structure and a changed division of labor between the committees in the Riksdag.
The changes affect the allocation of purposes and activities in expenditure areas 2 Public Economy and Financial Management, 5 International Cooperation, 6 Defence and Civil Protection, 20 Climate, Environment and Nature, 22 Communications and 24 Business.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants the Riksdag to reject the proposal to move intelligence operations from expenditure area 6 to expenditure area 5. (V, MP) — Reservation 1