(Dagbladet): Director of Publicity Committee Siri Gedde-Dahl, disagrees with King Harald, who today said that all information about the royal house economy is already open. King’s statement came during an interview with NTB on a trip to Rome.
– We want openness about the whole royal family, which is part of the central government. In advance of such a solution, it is natural to have a process where a distinction between the civil economy and private economy. We do not need access to receipts of socks, but in the part relating to the institution to do, says Geddes-Dahl told Dagbladet.
– Has King Harald right that all information the royal house’s economy is open?
– no, I do not agree. Some figures are open, but it is not the same access to the royal house that the government otherwise, says Geddes-Dahl.
– How can the king foster greater openness?
– the king has shown prudence before by publishing gifts and put an end to gifts from commercial operators. In this context, it would help if he expressed a desire that the government revealed the actual costs for the operation of the royal family in the state budget, and was in favor of that “official part” of the royal house were covered by the Freedom of Information Act, says Siri Gedde-Dahl told Dagbladet.
Dagbladet has discussed how the government expenditure on the royal family are not made visible somewhere with a sum in the state budget. Total bill is also much higher than what emerges in the state budget, since more than 110 million of the royal police escort is not listed anywhere.
110 million is Dagbladet estimates of expenditure, based on the compilation of information from a variety of places.
– Shame
Yesterday evening revealed Dagbladet that Crown Prince Haakon own shares in the international, Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara, while he visited the company during official travel and helped to promote it. King Harald commented on the matter in Rome today.
– I stand puzzled by what we are accused of, said King Harald told reporters during the royal couple’s state visit.
Press Association Kjersti Loken Stavrum responds to statement .
– it’s a pity that we have come to a situation where the question as Dagbladet has done is perceived as attacks, when in fact it appears things we did not know says Stavrum Dagbladet.
Soon the Parliament to decide on a proposal from the Left to add significant portions of the royal family under the Freedom of Information Act. Today the institution is exempt, even if they are part of the central government.
– It is important for everyone to remember that the Freedom of Information Act and openness is not intended as a punishment. It is a fundamental good of all. Freedom is a great value in a society, and transparency is an important value for operations in all areas. And especially when it relates to tax money, says Stavrum.
– Has King Harald right that everything is open around the royal house economy?
– No, it is difficult to agree with it. Dagbladet’s coverage has got several factors we have not known about before, that the assembly of the expenses of the royal house, the shareholding of the crown prince and the private hytteeiendommmene who was brought up at the court in the property.
Bs Parliament to decide
Parliament for the Liberal Party, sveinung rotevatn, today presented a representative proposals to Parliament. Left is clear that the royal house activities must be subject to Freedom of Information Act.
– Today says King Harald that he believes that all details of the royal house economy is already available. Is it correct that the king say?
– The economy at court there has been no transparency about. Salaries of senior managers took Dagbladet, after what I have understood, for months to get, and they felt they were not obliged to release the information, said Rotevatn.
– I would assume that king refers to sack records appanage and real estate. It has been available, but some other issues there has been no transparency around. For example, the royal family’s private fortune. No one knows how large it is or where it is invested, says Rotevatn Dagbladet on Wednesday.
– No problem
Rotevatn reports that it now , after the king’s statements Wednesday, should be no problem to add your business to the royal house under Freedom of Information Act.
– If they think everything is available from before, so there should be zero issue for Parliament to adopt this. I choose to interpret the king says positively and as a willingness to be open. It bodes well for our proposal. I want to emphasize that we in the Liberal Party has no reason to believe that someone in the royal family has skeletons in the closet, but transparency and Freedom of Information Act exists that the type of suspicion should not occur. As long Basically secrecy, so there will be misunderstandings, said Liberal politician.
Government responsibility
Geddes-Dahl also criticized the government’s budget guide for expenses related to the royal house.
– it is not the king’s fault that there is full transparency in the funding for the royal family in the state budget, it is the government that must be blamed. Government way to bring spending on the problem. There is no transparency in expenditure on the royal family when it’s so hard to see as today. Expenditures are on different budgets in the final state budget and government accounts. And security spending is kept secret, says Geddes-Dahl.
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