Anders Anundsen (born 17 November 1975) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Justice from 2013 to 2016.

A jurist by education, Anundsen rose to prominence for his work chairing the parliamentary Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs from 2009 to 2013, summoning several cabinet members to hearings, as well as committee work that concluded unanimously to criticise the government of Jens Stoltenberg for lack of emergency preparedness prior to the 2011 Norway attacks.

In 2012, Jens Stoltenberg became the first ever incumbent Norwegian Prime Minister to be summoned to an open hearing, on the topic of the emergency preparedness of the government before the 2011 attacks.

[2] Having won much acclaim for his committee work in parliament, Anundsen was considered one of his party's strongest candidates for a cabinet position prior to the official appointment.

[7][8] In November the same year, Anundsen introduced temporary general arming of the Norwegian police due to a heightened terror risk.

[9] Although initially introduced for four weeks, the period was later extended to an additional two months due to continued high terror threat.

While the government's expressed policy has introduced measures to deport record numbers of illegal immigrants,[18][19][20] it was revealed by Bergens Tidende that twice as many families had been sent out of Norway in 2014 than in 2013, despite that as part of the new government platform the Liberal and Christian Democratic parties had secured support for softening the rules on some long-term children, potentially allowing some to stay in Norway.

[21][22] In February 2015, Anundsen was summoned to an open hearing in the parliamentary Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs after increasing pressure, following which the Labour, Socialist Left and Centre parties proposed a motion of no confidence against him.

[26] The criticism is a report revolving the coordination of the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning and the county governors.

[29] The director of the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning, Jon Arvid Lea rejected the conclusions of the Office of the Auditor General, stating that it gave a wrong impression of the work and improvements that had been made in civil protection during recent years.