2023-03-292022/23:KU25 · p.1KUConstitution
Information exchange between authorities
Information exchange between authorities to combat crime and incorrect payments
What's at stake: How this trade-off is struck affects authorities' ability to detect and stop organised crime, labour-market crime and benefit fraud, while expanded information exchange can also mean a greater intrusion on individuals' personal privacy.
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 current rules on confidentiality and information exchange between authorities are sufficient to combat crime and incorrect welfare payments, or whether a broader review of secrecy legislation is needed to strengthen authorities' ability to cooperate.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee points out that a large number of provisions already allow exceptions to secrecy that enable information exchange between authorities, that several inquiries and preparatory processes on information exchange and reporting duties are under way, and that the government has announced measures including a new authority to reduce incorrect payments, and considers that this ongoing work should not be pre-empted, and therefore rejects the motions.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (S)
The reservation wants an inquiry appointed to carry out a comprehensive review of secrecy legislation, in order to create a better balance between privacy protection and the ability to combat labour-market crime, benefit fraud and other crime against public systems.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by S.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The decision would have gone the other way
Explicit commitments that contradicted the vote: KDKristdemokraterna, LLiberalerna, MModeraterna
Ja 188–93Nej 100–181
Counterfactual: the parties above are moved to the position their own documents explicitly point at, carrying their whole contingent present. Every other party keeps its real figures, including dissenters and absentees.
How the AI parties would have voted
For each party: what its own plan – election manifesto and party programme – argues for in this case, next to how the party actually voted. The AI can only answer Yes or No; a party can also abstain.
| AI | Vote | Confidence | Evidence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V | Yes | Yes 21/0/0/3 | match | confidence: low | not addressed |
| S | No | No 0/93/0/14 | match | confidence: high | explicit |
| MP | No | Yes 15/0/0/3 | differs | confidence: medium | not addressed |
| C | No | Abstain 0/0/21/3 | differs | confidence: medium | not addressed |
| L | No | Yes 14/0/0/2 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| KD | No | Yes 15/0/0/4 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| M | No | Yes 59/0/0/9 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| SD | No | Yes 64/0/0/9 | differs | confidence: high | not addressed |
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions 2022/23:863 by Ulrika Liljeberg et al. (C) amendment 21, 2022/23:1147 by Clara Aranda et al. (SD) amendment 4, 2022/23:1720 by Eva Lindh (S), 2022/23:1780 by Caroline Helmersson Olsson et al. (S) and 2022/23:2166 by Ida Karkiainen et al. (S) amendment 8.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2022/23:863 av Ulrika Liljeberg m.fl. (C) yrkande 21, 2022/23:1147 av Clara Aranda m.fl. (SD) yrkande 4, 2022/23:1720 av Eva Lindh (S), 2022/23:1780 av Caroline Helmersson Olsson m.fl. (S) och 2022/23:2166 av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S) yrkande 8.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected 14 proposals in motions from the ordinary motion period 2022 concerning public access, confidentiality, and integrity. This is especially with reference to ongoing work and the fact that there are already applicable regulations in the area. The motions deal with, among other things, information exchange between authorities, confidentiality in matters concerning employment of municipal and regional directors, disclosure of the so-called Stasi archives, trade in personal data, an investigation into increased control over how the public sector uses personal data, the application of the public access principle, and artificial intelligence and integrity.
Counter-proposals
- The counter-proposal wants to appoint an investigation to conduct a comprehensive review of confidentiality legislation. (S) — Reservation 1
Plan vs actual vote
Every party, in chamber order: what its own plan pointed to, how it voted, and the reasoning behind both. Highlighted rows are where the two differ — but a vote that follows the plan is a result too, so the reasoning is there for every party.
The plan requires that growing surveillance and registration be counteracted and that the welfare system be built on trust in citizens, while it emphasizes that it is companies and not individual benefit recipients who are responsible for major environmental crimes.
Plan documents: party programme · 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan requires that growing surveillance and registration be counteracted and that the welfare system be built on trust in citizens, while it emphasizes that it is companies and not individual benefit recipients who are responsible for major environmental crimes. A review that would loosen secrecy to pursue benefit fraud therefore goes in the opposite direction from the plan's privacy commitment. That labour market crime is a central threat according to the plan gives some support for the proposal, which is why the assessment is uncertain.
Original (Swedish)
Planen kräver att växande övervakning och registrering motverkas och att välfärdssystemet bygger på tillit till medborgarna, samtidigt som den understryker att det är företagen och inte enskilda bidragstagare som står för de stora ekobrotten. En översyn som ska luckra upp sekretessen för att jaga bidragsfusk drar därför i motsatt riktning mot planens integritetsåtagande. Att arbetsmarknadskriminalitet är ett centralt hot enligt planen ger visst stöd åt förslaget, varför bedömningen är osäker.
- counteract surveillancedecisive»registrering ska motverkas« (party programme ↗)“registration shall be counteracted”
- companies are responsible for environmental crimes»Det är företagen som överlägset står för de flesta« (party programme ↗)“It is companies that overwhelmingly are responsible for the most”
- trust before control»Ett generellt välfärdssystem baserat på tillit till medborgarna« (party programme ↗)“A general welfare system based on trust in citizens”
- combat economic crime»Lönedumpning, ekonomisk brottslighet och utnyttjande är centrala hot idag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Wage dumping, economic crime, and exploitation are central threats today.”
The election manifesto explicitly says that secrecy barriers between public authorities shall be torn down so that the police and other professions can do their job, which is exactly what the counter-proposal wants to investigate.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto explicitly says that secrecy barriers between public authorities shall be torn down so that the police and other professions can do their job, which is exactly what the counter-proposal wants to investigate. The plan additionally demands strong measures against workplace crime and that tax fraud and welfare crime are stopped, that is, the same purpose the review is to serve. The programme's requirement for integrity protection sets the frame but does not prevent a review.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet säger uttryckligen att sekretesshinder mellan myndigheter ska rivas så att polisen och andra yrkesgrupper kan göra sitt jobb, vilket är precis det motförslaget vill utreda. Planen kräver dessutom krafttag mot arbetslivskriminaliteten och att skattefusk och välfärdsbrottslighet stoppas, alltså samma ändamål som översynen ska tjäna. Programmets krav på integritetsskydd sätter ramen men hindrar inte en översyn.
- tear down secrecy barriersdecisive»Sekretesshinder mellan myndigheter ska rivas så att polisen och andra yrkesgrupper kan göra sitt jobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Secrecy barriers between public authorities shall be torn down so that the police and other professions can do their job.”
- against workplace crime»Krafttag mot arbetslivskriminaliteten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strong measures against workplace crime.”
- stop benefit fraud»Skattefusk, välfärdsbrottslighet och penningtvätt ska stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tax fraud, welfare crime and money laundering shall be stopped.”
- integrity protection as frame»Det är samhällets absoluta skyldighet att skydda friheten och den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“It is society's absolute duty to protect freedom and personal integrity”
The election manifesto explicitly wants to ease secrecy between neighbourhood police, school and social services and strengthen inter-agency cooperation to cut off the funding of criminal gangs, and the party programme states that obstacles to cooperation should be removed.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto explicitly wants to ease secrecy between neighbourhood police, school and social services and strengthen inter-agency cooperation to cut off the funding of criminal gangs, and the party programme states that obstacles to cooperation should be removed. A review of secrecy legislation seeking better balance against crime in public systems is therefore in line with the plan, while the plan's privacy boundary must be respected in its design.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet vill uttryckligen lätta på sekretessen mellan områdespoliser, skola och socialtjänst och stärka myndighetssamverkan för att strypa de kriminella gängens finansiering, och partiprogrammet slår fast att hinder för samverkan bör arbetas bort. En översyn av sekretesslagstiftningen som söker bättre balans mot brottslighet i de offentliga systemen ligger därför i linje med planen, samtidigt som planens integritetsgräns måste respekteras i utformningen.
- ease secrecy for cooperationdecisive»lätta på sekretessen mellan områdespoliser, skola, socialtjänst och stärka samarbetet med civilsamhälle så att inga barn faller mellan stolarna i det förebyggande arbetet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“ease secrecy between neighbourhood police, school, social services and strengthen cooperation with civil society so that no children fall through the cracks in preventive work.”
- inter-agency cooperation against crime»stoppa finansieringen av de kriminella gängen genom att stärka myndighetssamverkan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“stop the funding of criminal gangs by strengthening inter-agency cooperation”
- remove obstacles to cooperation»in, bör stärkas. Hinder för denna samverkan bör« (party programme ↗)“in, should be strengthened. Obstacles to this cooperation should”
- privacy boundary for new tools»alla lagar som innebär oproportionerliga ingrepp i« (party programme ↗)“all laws that mean disproportionate interference with”
The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.
The party programme requires that there is a proportionality between legislation's limitation of integrity and its purpose, which is exactly the balancing the counter-proposal wants a survey to make.
Plan documents: party programme · 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The party programme requires that there is a proportionality between legislation's limitation of integrity and its purpose, which is exactly the balancing the counter-proposal wants a survey to make. The plan moreover wants to choke the criminals' income and protect that tax money goes to welfare's core, which speaks for better opportunities to fight benefit fraud and labour market criminality. Strong integrity protection shall at the same time be preserved, which the counter-proposal's balancing requirement takes into account.
Original (Swedish)
Partiprogrammet kräver att det finns en proportionalitet mellan lagstiftningens inskränkning av integriteten och dess syfte, vilket är exakt den avvägning motförslaget vill låta en utredning göra. Planen vill dessutom strypa de kriminellas inkomster och värna att skattemedlen går till välfärdens kärna, vilket talar för bättre möjligheter att bekämpa bidragsfusk och arbetsmarknadskriminalitet. Ett starkt integritetsskydd ska samtidigt bevaras, vilket motförslagets balanskrav tar höjd för.
- proportionality in integrity questionsdecisive»Det måste finnas en proportionalitet mellan lagstiftningens inskränkning av medborgarnas integritet och lagarnas syfte.« (party programme ↗)“There must be proportionality between legislation's limitation of citizens' integrity and the law's purpose.”
- choke criminal income»Dessutom bör en utredning om gängens inkomster och hur dessa kan strypas genomföras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Moreover, a survey on gangs' income and how it can be choked should be conducted.”
- protect welfare's resources»Politiken ska hushålla med skattebetalarnas pengar. Mer pengar ska läggas på välfärdens kärna, mindre på bidrag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Politics shall be economical with taxpayers' money. More money shall be spent on welfare's core, less on benefits.”
- strong integrity protection»Ett starkt integritetsskydd är därför en omistlig del av ett öppet och demokratiskt samhälle.« (party programme ↗)“Strong integrity protection is therefore an indispensable part of an open and democratic society.”
The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.
The election manifesto demands that police and social services as a main rule shall always be able to exchange information with each other and that schools shall always report suspected criminal activity, and wants to establish in law municipalities' crime-prevention work.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto demands that police and social services as a main rule shall always be able to exchange information with each other and that schools shall always report suspected criminal activity, and wants to establish in law municipalities' crime-prevention work. A review of confidentiality legislation to enable information exchange against benefit fraud and labour market crime is precisely what the plan seeks. The plan at the same time requires that privacy violations are weighed against opposing interests.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet kräver att polis och socialtjänst som huvudregel alltid ska kunna utbyta information med varandra och att skolan alltid ska anmäla misstänkt brottslighet, och vill lagstadga kommunernas brottsförebyggande arbete. En översyn av sekretesslagstiftningen för att möjliggöra informationsutbyte mot bidragsfusk och arbetsmarknadskriminalitet är just det planen efterfrågar. Planen kräver samtidigt att integritetsintrång vägs mot motstående intressen.
- information exchange as main ruledecisive»Polis och socialtjänst ska som huvudregel alltid kunna utbyta information sinsemellan och ska oftare dela lokaler.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Police and social services shall as a main rule always be able to exchange information with each other and shall more often share premises.”
- report when crimes suspected»För att polis och socialtjänst alltid ska få kännedom om barn som är på fel väg i livet ska huvudregeln bli att skolan alltid gör polisanmälan och orosanmälan vid misstänkt brottslighet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“In order for police and social services to always learn about children who are on the wrong track in life, the main rule shall be that the school always makes a police report and concern report for suspected criminal activity.”
- established crime prevention»Kommuners brottsförebyggande arbete ska lagstadgas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Municipalities' crime-prevention work shall be established in law.”
- privacy violations require weightier grounds»är endast berättigade om ett motstående intresse väger uppenbart tyngre och åtgärden är effektiv.« (party programme ↗)“are only justified if an opposing interest weighs obviously heavier and the measure is effective.”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The election manifesto explicitly requires a complete review of confidentiality regulations so that authorities can share information to prevent and clear up crimes.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto explicitly requires a complete review of confidentiality regulations so that authorities can share information to prevent and clear up crimes. An investigation with a comprehensive review of confidentiality legislation to combat benefit fraud and labour market crime is precisely this. The plan simultaneously maintains a strong protection of privacy and restrictive use of confidentiality.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet kräver uttryckligen en total översyn av sekretessreglerna så att myndigheter kan dela uppgifter mellan sig för att förebygga och klara upp brott. En utredning med genomgripande översyn av sekretesslagstiftningen för att bekämpa bidragsfusk och arbetsmarknadskriminalitet är precis detta. Planen håller samtidigt fast vid ett starkt integritetsskydd och restriktiv sekretessanvändning.
- complete review of confidentiality regulationsdecisive»Total översyn av sekretessreglerna, så att myndigheter kan dela uppgifter mellan sig för att förebygga och klara upp brott.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Complete review of confidentiality regulations, so that authorities can share information to prevent and clear up crimes.”
- all crimes shall be prosecuted»Alla brott ska effektivt och utan undantag beivras« (party programme ↗)“All crimes shall be effectively prosecuted without exception”
- restrictive confidentiality»Sekretessmöjligheten ska nyttjas restriktivt.« (party programme ↗)“Confidentiality shall be used restrictively.”
- strong privacy protection»Den personliga integriteten ska ha ett starkt« (party programme ↗)“Personal privacy shall have a strong”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The plan wants to remove all secrecy barriers between social services and police and take control of disbursements to stop the roughly 20 billion kronor that every year disappear to benefit fraud and criminals.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan wants to remove all secrecy barriers between social services and police and take control of disbursements to stop the roughly 20 billion kronor that every year disappear to benefit fraud and criminals. A comprehensive review of secrecy legislation to balance privacy protection against crime prevention is the same thing in substance. The plan therefore supports the counter-proposal.
Original (Swedish)
Planen vill undanröja alla sekretesshinder mellan socialtjänst och polis och ta kontroll över utbetalningarna för att stoppa de omkring 20 miljarder kronor som varje år försvinner till bidragsfuskare och kriminella. En genomgripande översyn av sekretesslagstiftningen för att balansera integritetsskyddet mot brottsbekämpningen är samma sak i sak. Planen stöder därför motförslaget.
- bort med sekretesshinderdecisive»Undanröja alla sekretesshinder mellan socialtjänst och polis« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Remove all secrecy barriers between social services and police”
- bidragsfusk kostar välfärden(2022 manifesto)
- stoppa bidragsbrotten»Moderaterna tänker ta kontroll över folkbokföringen för att stoppa bidragsbrotten och se till att de skattepengar du betalar in används till det de är avsedda för.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Moderate Party intends to take control of the population register to stop benefit crimes and ensure that the tax money you pay in is used for what it is intended for.”
- skarpare kontrollorganisation»Inrätta en bidragsbrottsenhet på Försäkringskassan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Establish a benefit crime unit at the Social Insurance Agency”
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The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The plan requires that the justice system's cooperation between agencies and tools to detect and prosecute criminals be improved, that procedural obstacles to increased prosecution be removed, and that welfare fraud within social insurance be stopped.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan requires that the justice system's cooperation between agencies and tools to detect and prosecute criminals be improved, that procedural obstacles to increased prosecution be removed, and that welfare fraud within social insurance be stopped. A comprehensive review of confidentiality legislation to balance privacy protection against crime prevention is a direct means to this end. The demand is therefore supported.
Original (Swedish)
Planen kräver att rättsväsendets samverkan mellan myndigheter och verktygen för att upptäcka och lagföra kriminella förbättras, att processuella hinder för ökad lagföring undanröjs och att välfärdsbrottsligheten inom socialförsäkringen stoppas. En genomgripande översyn av sekretesslagstiftningen för att balansera integritetsskydd mot brottsbekämpning är ett direkt medel för detta. Kravet stöds därför.
- improved information sharingdecisive»Rättsväsendets samverkan mellan myndigheter och verktyg för att upptäcka och lagföra kriminella ska förbättras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The justice system's cooperation between agencies and tools to detect and prosecute criminals shall be improved.”
- remove procedural obstacles»Processuella hinder för att möjliggöra en ökad lagföring måste också undanröjas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Procedural obstacles to enabling increased prosecution must also be removed.”
- stop welfare fraud»Stoppa välfärdsbrottsligheten inom socialförsäkringen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stop welfare fraud within social insurance”
- tougher action against benefit fraud»Skärpa straffen för fusk inom välfärdssystemen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stiffen penalties for fraud within welfare systems”
The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.
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Sources and documents
- The committee report on riksdagen.se (2022/23:KU25)
- Committee report full text (HA01KU25)
- Per-MP voting data (API)
- Case status (API)
Documents under consideration
- Motion 2022/23:1147 — Krafttag mot välfärdsbrottslighet och felaktiga utbetalningar av Clara Aranda m.fl. (SD)
- Motion 2022/23:1161 — Skydd för personliga data av Joakim Järrebring (S)
- Motion 2022/23:1164 — Förstärkt skydd för personuppgifter av Joakim Järrebring (S)
- Motion 2022/23:1390 — Begränsning av myndigheters offentliggörande och försäljning av personuppgifter av Ingemar Kihlström (KD)
- Motion 2022/23:1720 — Översyn offentlighets- och sekretesslagen av Eva Lindh (S)
- Motion 2022/23:1780 — Sekretesslagstiftning av Caroline Helmersson Olsson m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2022/23:181 — Stärk demokratin och de mänskliga rättigheterna av Märta Stenevi m.fl. (MP)
- Motion 2022/23:1882 — En starkare liberal demokrati av Malin Björk m.fl. (C)
- Motion 2022/23:2166 — Utgiftsområde 1 Rikets styrelse av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2022/23:300 — Transparens och rättssäkerhet vid tjänstetillsättningar i kommuner och regioner av Stefan Olsson (M)
- Motion 2022/23:416 — Kartläggning och löpande uppföljning av offentlighetsprincipen och dess tillämpning av Staffan Eklöf (SD)
- Motion 2022/23:706 — Stasiarkiv av Markus Wiechel (SD)
- Motion 2022/23:863 — Rättspolitik av Ulrika Liljeberg m.fl. (C)
Source: The Swedish Parliament