Scope of the relief rules for smaller independent school providers
What's at stake: The decision determines where the line is drawn for which independent providers get more time and simpler requirements for handling the public-access principle, affecting how quickly and fully the public can obtain documents from independent schools of different sizes.
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 relief rules for smaller independent providers should be designed as the government proposes, or instead be narrowed so that medium-sized providers are excluded from the relief.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee stresses that the relief rules do not mean the public-access principle stops applying, only that smaller providers get somewhat more time to handle a request for disclosure. The committee considers the proposed pupil-number thresholds reasonable and finds that the relief makes the requirements manageable even for medium-sized providers with a small number of pupils spread across several units, and therefore rejects the motions calling for a narrower scope.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 2 (S)
The reservation holds that the proposed relief is too generously designed and risks undermining the reform, since even relatively large providers can be covered. It wants the relief narrowed so that medium-sized providers are excluded, to ensure that a larger share of activity is actually subject to public scrutiny.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
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YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 2 by S.
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
V
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Abstain 2/0/19/0
Sown reservation
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No 0/106/0/0
MP
–
Abstain 0/0/18/0
C
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Yes 24/0/0/0
L
–
Yes 16/0/0/0
KD
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Yes 19/0/0/0
M
–
Yes 65/0/0/1
SD
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Yes 69/0/0/1
Broke with the party line
VCiczie Weidby(V, Jönköpings län)
Yes — party line: Abstain
VLotta Johnsson Fornarve(V, Södermanlands län)
Yes — party line: Abstain
MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects motions
2025/26:4024 by Anders Ygeman et al. (S) demands 1 and 2 and
2025/26:4049 by Camilla Hansén et al. (MP) demand 1.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:4024 av Anders Ygeman m.fl. (S) yrkandena 1 och 2 samt
2025/26:4049 av Camilla Hansén m.fl. (MP) yrkande 1.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag approved the government's proposal to introduce the public access principle for private preschools, private schools and private after-school centers.
The proposal aims to ensure that the opportunity for transparency is the same for all principals within the education system and means in essence the following:
The right to access public records shall apply to legal entities that are private principals within the education system.
Such principals shall be equated with public authorities when applying the Public Access and Secrecy Act, and certain confidentiality provisions that apply to such principals are adapted so that confidentiality does not hinder access to information about the education system.
Smaller principals shall be permitted to apply rules that provide certain exemptions in the handling of public records. This shall apply to principals who have at most 450 children and pupils or, if they only have private preschools, at most 100 children, or are part of a group where the group companies together have so many children or pupils.
What applies according to the Archives Act for municipal authorities' archives shall apply to affected private principals, with the exception for smaller principals who shall preserve public records for at least seven years as a main rule.
During the first two years after implementation, all legal entities that are private principals within the education system shall be permitted to apply exemption rules.
The new rules enter into force on 1 January 2027.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to limit the reliefs for school owners so they do not cover medium-sized operators. (S) — Reservation 2
Motion 2025/26:3996 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:191 Offentlighetsprincipen med lättnadsregler för enskilda mindre huvudmän i skolväsendet av Isabell Mixter m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:4024 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:191 Offentlighetsprincipen med lättnadsregler för enskilda mindre huvudmän i skolväsendet av Anders Ygeman m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:4049 — med anledning av prop. 2025/26:191 Offentlighetsprincipen med lättnadsregler för enskilda mindre huvudmän i skolväsendet av Camilla Hansén m.fl. (MP)
Proposition 2025/26:191 — Offentlighetsprincipen med lättnadsregler för enskilda mindre huvudmän i skolväsendet