Measures against companies used as tools for crime
What's at stake: Disreputable companies that win public contracts on lowest price risk driving down wages and working conditions, and criminal actors have established themselves in the welfare sector after winning public contracts. Without national coordination, a company stopped in one municipality can continue operating elsewhere, which affects both employees and legitimate competitors.
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 dedicated new tools should be created — such as a blacklist of disreputable companies and a coordination mandate for register checks at the companies registration authority — to stop companies being used as tools for crime, or whether measures already adopted, such as expanded business bans and a strengthened beneficial-ownership register, are sufficient.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee notes that parliament has already adopted expanded powers to impose business bans due to crime, and that work against money laundering has been strengthened by giving the companies registration authority funds to develop the register of beneficial owners and a service for digital filing of annual reports. Since equivalent motions on a blacklist and coordinated register checks were already considered and rejected in spring 2025, the committee sees no reason to revisit its position and recommends rejecting all the motions in this section.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 5 (V)
The reservation points out that lowest price is often decisive in public procurement, allowing disreputable and sometimes criminal companies to win contracts at the expense of good working conditions, and that a lack of national coordination lets such companies keep operating in other parts of the country. The government should investigate a shared vetting system for contracting authorities and the creation of a blacklist of disreputable companies.
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–
SD–
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 5 by V.
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
–
No 0/15/0/7
S
–
Yes 92/1/0/13
MP
–
Yes 16/0/0/2
C
–
Abstain 0/0/21/3
L
–
Yes 10/0/0/6
KD
–
Yes 17/0/0/2
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SD
–
Yes 62/0/0/9
Broke with the party line
SBlåvitt Elofsson(S, Värmlands län)
No — party line: Yes
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 the motions
2025/26:1 by Josef Fransson (SD),
2025/26:307 by Nooshi Dadgostar et al. (V) demand 27,
2025/26:1941 by Mattias Jonsson and Amalia Rud Stenlöf (both S) and
2025/26:2831 by Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist et al. (C) demand 42.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:1 av Josef Fransson (SD),
2025/26:307 av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V) yrkande 27,
2025/26:1941 av Mattias Jonsson och Amalia Rud Stenlöf (båda S) och
2025/26:2831 av Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist m.fl. (C) yrkande 42.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected 138 proposals in motions from the general motion period 2025 concerning business policy.
The proposals deal with, among other things, business promotion, measures against unscrupulous companies, competition issues, efforts for an equal business environment and certain industries and sectors.
The Riksdag refers, among other things, to current policy, previous positions and that work is already underway in the areas covered by the proposals.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants the government to instruct Vinnova to terminate the innovation collaboration and close its office in Tel Aviv. (V) — Reservation 5
Motion 2025/26:1077 — En nationell dataspelspolitik för kultur och innovation av Sofia Skönnbrink m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1122 — Stöd till affärsutveckling för kulturella och kreativa branscher, särskilt spelindustrin av Anne-Li Sjölund (C)
Motion 2025/26:1166 — Destinationsutveckling av östra Skåne av Adrian Magnusson m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1175 — Nationell samordnare för dataspelsbranschen av Mona Smedman (C)
Motion 2025/26:1245 — Turistavgift av Anna-Caren Sätherberg och Hanna Westerén (båda S)
Motion 2025/26:1276 — Reformer för ökad tillväxt i Stockholmsregionen av Josefin Malmqvist m.fl. (M)
Motion 2025/26:128 — Inrättande av en chief technology officer för Sverige av Rashid Farivar (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1320 — Utvärdering av bryggerilånens påverkan på krogmarknaden och småbryggeriernas möjligheter av Petter Löberg och Joakim Järrebring (båda S)
Motion 2025/26:1387 — Stärkta förutsättningar för kooperativt företagande av Karin Sundin m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1417 — Statligt ansvar vid industrietableringar av Åsa Karlsson (S)
Motion 2025/26:1447 — Bättre förutsättningar för en modern industri av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1448 — Stärkt entreprenörskap i hela landet av Johan Büser (S)
Motion 2025/26:1925 — Svenska trähus för Ukrainas återuppbyggnad av Jan Ericson (M)
Motion 2025/26:1941 — Stopp för kriminaliteten inom offentlig upphandling av Mattias Jonsson och Amalia Rud Stenlöf (båda S)
Motion 2025/26:2095 — Regelbunden översyn av svensk konkurrenskraft av Sten Bergheden (M)
Motion 2025/26:2181 — Forskning, innovation och teknikutveckling inom safetech och blåljusverksamhet av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)