The Archive of State secretaries consists of data about the Norwegian governments and state secretaries since 1945. Information about the state secretaries may be accessed either through 'government' or 'ministry' as the overarching structure. All in all the data contain information on three levels:
The state secretaries are linked to the Storting's online biography service in cases where they are biographed there. This biography service is continuously updated.
If you are interested in a certain person, the easiest thing to do would be to search for this person directly. However, worth noticing here is that in connection with 'Find person' we have also made a name index that includes all the persons that exist in NSD's Archives of Politicians. In other words: all former and present members (and quite a lot of substitutes) of the Storting are included in this index. With that regard we have made a simple table that systematically indicates whether the indexed persons have taken office as minister and/or state secretary and/or member of the Storting.
The State Secretary's archive was the subject of updating and improvement in 2007. In this connection, the following sources were mainly used:
Furthermore, the Norwegian government's websites in particular, but also the Storting's websites and the internet in general, have been valuable sources. The continuous update of sitting state secretaries is based on press releases from the Prime Minister's office.