Operational and financial planning and monitoring

The operations of the Ministry are guided by the Government Programme, and the Joint Strategy for the Ministry of the Interior’s administrative branch.

The administrative branch’s operational and financial planning is based on the four-year general government fiscal plan (incl. spending limits decisions), annual budgets and performance agreements.

According to the ordinary budget for 2024, the target figure for human resources in the Ministry's branch of government is about 16.391. The actual figure for 2023 was an estimated 16.104 person-years. The largest employers are the police force (about 10.402 person-years) and the Border Guard (about 3.000 person-years). In the 2024 ordinary budget, the total expenditure of the Ministry of the Interior's branch of government amounts to EUR 2.579 billion.