The Minister of the Interior and Health of Denmark ( da, Indenrigs- og sundhedsminister) is a member of the
Danish cabinet
The Cabinet of Denmark ( da, regering) has been the chief executive body and the government of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1848. The Cabinet is led by the Prime Minister. There are around 25 members of the Cabinet, known as "ministers", all of w ...
and the head of the
Ministry of the Interior and Health.
After the
2007 Folketing elections, the ministry was disbanded, and its areas of responsibility divided between two newly created ministries, the
Ministry of Welfare and the
Ministry of Health and Prevention. With the announcement of the first
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Lars Løkke Rasmussen (; born 15 May 1964) is a Danish politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2022. He previously served as the 25th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He was the lead ...
cabinet in 2009, the Ministry of Welfare was abolished and replaced by the
Ministry of the Interior and Social Affairs
Ministry may refer to:
Government
* Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister
* Ministry (government department), a department of a government
Religion
* Christian ...
, a de facto re-establishment of two old ministries. Only
emancipation
Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchis ...
affairs were moved to the
Ministry of Employment.
See also
*
List of Interior Ministers (Denmark)
This is a list of Interior Minister of Denmark, Interior Ministers of Denmark since the establishment of the Danish Ministry of the Interior in 1848. The Ministry was abolished in 2007 with most of the portfolio becoming part of a new Ministry of ...
External links
Official website of the Ministry of the Interior and Health
Interior and Health
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