17 Facts About Sveinung Stensland

Sveinung Stensland was born on 6 November 1972 and is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

Sveinung Stensland was elected as an ordinary member of the Storting from 2017, and was re-elected in 2021.

Sveinung Stensland's father was a city councilman for several years.

Sveinung Stensland graduated in pharmacology from the University of Oslo in 1997, and has later worked as pharmacist, apothecary and administrator in the pharmacy chain Apotek 1.

Sveinung Stensland was a member of the municipal council in Haugesund from 2007 to 2015, and a member of the county council of Rogaland from 2007 to 2013.

Sveinung Stensland was elected as deputy to the Storting from Rogaland in 2013.

Sveinung Stensland continued his membership of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services, and was the second vice chair of the committee from 2017 to 2021.

Two days before the revised budget for 2022 was presented in November 2021, Sveinung Stensland said that justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl had to "get out of the campaign fog", and that the police didn't need more stations, but more officers.

Sveinung Stensland criticised what he called the Centre Party's "reversal-mania", which he alleged would damage national security and police preparedness.

On 5 December 2021, after justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl had notified of a reversal of the courts reform, Sveinung Stensland criticised the decision.

Sveinung Stensland said that multiple levels of the justice sector disagreed, and referred to a parliamentary response from Mehl, where she had said that the reform would be upheld in places "unless the head of the court, the municipalities in the court district and the employees through the scribes agree to maintain the current structure".

Sveinung Stensland stated that Mehl had already broken her governmental promise.

Sveinung Stensland asked for justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl to halt the process until all necessary questions regarding the possible security issues were answered.

Sveinung Stensland's sentiments was shared by the Progress Party and Socialist Left Party.

In January 2023, Sveinung Stensland stated that his party's confidence in justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl was weakened following controversy surrounding her usage of TikTok on her work phone.

Sveinung Stensland was a board member of Navamedic from 2002 to 2006, Rockfest from 2008 to 2011, of the International Research Institute of Stavanger from 2011 to 2014, and of the Western Norway Regional Health Authority from 2012 to 2014.

Sveinung Stensland was chairman of the board of the foundation Rogaland Kurs- og Kompetansesenter from 2011 to 2014, and of Haugaland Industri from 2013 to 2018.