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The biggest leak of crowns and øre is that the government will spend 40.9 billion on research and development.
Out of a state budget that is likely to amount to NOK 1.4 billion in total, this is not an insignificant item.
The second largest leak is on the railroad. As the Liberal Party boasted during its national meeting in September, the government will increase rail investment, from 26.8 billion this year to 32 billion in 2021.
Coronakroner
The crown crisis has cost the state at least 126 billion so far this year. Next year, the government will keep 25 billion new for corona measures.
Some interpret this to mean that Erna Solberg expects the crown crisis to be less extensive next year.
3,800 million will be allocated to the purchase of vaccines and 1,100 million to an emergency reserve of medicines.
Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner is also disbursing an additional 650 million for testing at border crossings. Furthermore, a number of budget lines, for example in the police, have been adjusted upward as a result of increased spending and requirements in crown times.
Reed with a strong warning to Erna.
Carbon dispute
FRP and the government are on a collision course on the issue of carbon capture and storage in Norway through the government’s prestigious “Longship” project. In the state budget, the government keeps 2 billion for the project, but the FRP has announced that it will not support it.
Therefore, it is currently unclear how this money will be adopted without the government seeking support from other opposition parties, which the FRP will hardly particularly appreciate.
It was this weekend that Solberg came out with the news that the government is setting aside two billion kronor in the state budget to launch the longship.
– If I add goodwill, I do not interpret Erna in the sense that he should agree with the Labor Party on carbon capture and storage and then expect us to support him on the budget afterwards, Siv Jensen tells Dagbladet.
– My reluctant comment will then be that if she is going to fix the Langskip project with the Labor Party, which has a consequence of two billion for the budget, then she must also fix the budget with the Labor Party, continues Jensen.
That’s why Erna is “quite Nazi”
Nuclear work and waste
The crown crisis also creates challenges in working life.
It is clear that the government is allocating an additional NOK 825 million to labor market measures that will help people outside of working life to work. In addition, an additional 500 million will be added to Nav’s corona handling.
An extra 500 million NOK goes to the police so that the 400 positions that were created temporarily due to the corona pandemic can be made permanent.
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From other leaks, we know that the government will spend 180 million on introducing new curricula, 80 million on digital education, 170 million crowns on strengthening the focus on mental health of children and young people and 157.7 million crowns on Cheaper SFO for low-income families.
The number of refugees with quotas always creates tension during the presentation of the state budget, and it is clear in advance that the government will continue to receive a total of 3,000 refugees with quotas in Norway next year as well.
It is also clear that the government will spend NOK 691 million on cleaning up Norwegian nuclear waste.
Other leaks:
* NOK 120 million more for children’s leisure cards, so the government will spend a total of NOK 180 million on the scheme.
* NOK 100 million for extended assistance to express bus companies affected by the crisis.
* NOK 100 million for municipalities that will be allocated to children and young people with disabilities.
* NOK 100 million for strategic export investments. NOK 75 million are earmarked for strategic investments through the new Business Norway unit, NOK 20 million to strengthen the cluster program and NOK 5 million to promote Norwegian cultural exports.
* 70 million is used to increase the one-time benefit, which is intended for mothers who are not entitled to parental benefit, from 84,720 to 90,300 crowns.
* NOK 70 million to insure old churches.
* 70 million will be distributed in 14 projects in seven of the country’s universities and colleges that will develop new ways of providing better teaching.
* NOK 60 million to fight loneliness and isolation among the elderly during the corona pandemic.
* NOK 60 million for the permanent parking of ambulance helicopters in Kirkenes.
* A total of NOK 51.3 million for the Kirkens SOS crisis service and the Mental Health crisis hotline.
* It is proposed to grant Norsk Rikstoto a tax allowance corresponding to the totalizing tax of 3.3% of turnover. Last year, the revenue from this tax was budgeted at NOK 120 million.
* It is proposed to reinforce efforts against work-related crime by NOK 52 million. 38 million will go to the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority to ensure better enforcement of the recruitment regulations that were introduced for the construction industry this year. 14 million go to the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority to get better control of working conditions in the offshore industry.
39 million in more financing for the permanent adapted work (VTA) labor market measure.
* NOK 32 million to strengthen coastal surveillance.
* NOK 26.5 million for the creation of 100 new educational positions for doctors, the so-called LIS1 positions.
* NOK 26 million for police districts to practice more at the national police emergency center.
* NOK 20 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) from the budget of the Ministry of Health, in addition to the usual support from the budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
* NOK 6.5 million for a new grocery inspection to be established next year.
* NOK 700 million for the state-owned company Nysnø Klimainvesteringer, which invests in various companies developing new and climate-friendly technology.
* The government proposes to increase the child benefit by NOK 300 per month starting in September next year. This is an increase of NOK 3,600 per year. The increase applies to children up to six years of age and NOK 413 million has been proposed for the measure in the state budget for 2021.
