2026-06-152025/26:SfU32 · p.2SfUMigration & social insurance
New reporting obligations
New data-disclosure duties for authorities in return-enforcement cases
What's at stake: The decision affects how easily the Public Employment Service, the Social Insurance Agency, the Prison and Probation Service, the Enforcement Authority, the Pensions Agency and the Tax Agency can pass on information about individuals to the Police Authority, which in turn can affect people's willingness to have any contact with these authorities at all.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is what evidentiary threshold should apply for when six authorities must, on their own initiative, pass on information to the Police Authority indicating that a foreign national may lack the right to remain in Sweden - the government's lower bar of ‘reason to assume’ versus a stricter requirement of ‘strong grounds to assume’ - and whether so-called side information should also be covered by the duty.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee upholds the government's proposal that the disclosure duty should apply already when there is reason to assume that a foreign national lacks the right to remain in Sweden, since the purpose is not for the six authorities to make a full determination of residence rights but to pass on information to the enforcing authorities when concrete circumstances point with some force to the person lacking such a right. Concerns about reduced trust in the authorities are not seen as needing to be exaggerated, since better cooperation and more effective return enforcement could instead increase trust in the state.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (S, C)
The reservation (S, C) wants to replace 'reason to assume' with 'strong grounds to assume' as the condition for the disclosure duty, since the lower threshold sets a low evidentiary bar that risks enabling arbitrary decisions about whose data is passed on. The reservers also want so-called side information - for example observations made during an inspection but not directly relevant to its purpose - to be excluded from the disclosure duty.
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 1 by S, C.
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
–
No 0/21/0/0
Sown reservation
–
No 0/105/0/1
MP
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No 0/17/1/0
Cown reservation
–
No 0/24/0/0
L
–
Yes 16/0/0/0
KD
–
Yes 19/0/0/0
M
–
Yes 66/0/0/0
SD
–
Yes 70/0/0/0
Broke with the party line
MPEmma Berginger(MP, Skåne läns södra)
Abstain — party line: No
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 adopts Chapter 17, Section 6 of the Government's proposal for an amendment to the Aliens Act (2005:716).
By this the Riksdag approves proposition 2025/26:263 point 3 in this part and rejects the motions
2025/26:4150 by Tony Haddou et al. (V) request 1 in this part,
2025/26:4152 by Ida Karkiainen et al. (S) request 1,
2025/26:4159 by Niels Paarup-Petersen et al. (C) request 1 and
2025/26:4173 by Annika Hirvonen et al. (MP) requests 1 in this part, 2, 5 and 6 in this part.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen antar 17 kap. 6 § regeringens förslag till lag om ändring i utlänningslagen (2005:716).
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2025/26:263 punkt 3 i denna del och avslår motionerna
2025/26:4150 av Tony Haddou m.fl. (V) yrkande 1 i denna del,
2025/26:4152 av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S) yrkande 1,
2025/26:4159 av Niels Paarup-Petersen m.fl. (C) yrkande 1 och
2025/26:4173 av Annika Hirvonen m.fl. (MP) yrkandena 1 i denna del, 2, 5 och 6 i denna del.
Riksdag decision: The Government wants to streamline return operations and implement several changes in the Aliens Act, among other things. The Riksdag voted yes to the Government's proposal.
In order to streamline return operations, the Government proposes that the Police Authority and the Migration Agency obtain better tools to enforce deportation and expulsion decisions. The Government proposes a new obligation for the Employment Agency, the Social Insurance Agency, the Correctional Service, the Enforcement Authority, the Pensions Agency and the Tax Agency to on their own initiative provide information about a foreigner to the Police Authority if there is reason to believe that he or she does not have the right to remain in Sweden.
The proposal entails, among other things, also that the authorities are given additional tools to clarify a foreigner's identity. A possibility is introduced to take possession of and search a foreigner's mobile phone if it can be assumed to contain information about the foreigner's identity. Furthermore, fingerprints and photographs shall be permitted to be used in alien matters to a greater extent and more efficiently than today.
The legislative changes enter into force on 13 July 2026.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to raise the evidentiary standard to 'strong reasons' and exclude side information from the reporting requirement. (S, C) — Reservation 1