The ministry was headed by the minister for physical planning and local government.
During the ministry's first year in 1974, the following officials sorted under the minister: one state secretary, one director general for administrative affairs (expeditionschef) and director general for legal affairs (rättschef) as well as a number of other officials for different fields; one senior administrative officer (byrådirektör) for Länsstyrelserna m. m. ("County Administrative Boards etc.
Other officials included desk officer (departementssekreterare), information officer (informationssekreterare), senior registry clerk (registrator), officials with special assignments and a secretary to the cabinet minister.
"); one head and four advisers in the Rättssekretariatet (R) ("Legal Secretariat"); one director and three desk officers in the Planerings- och budgetsekretariatet (PBS)/Kommunernas och landstingskommunernas ekonomi ("The Planning and Budget Secretariat (PBS)/The Finances of Municipalities and County Councils"); as well as four other officials (director, information officer, senior registry clerk and a secretary to the cabinet minister).
[6] In 1974, among other things, the following central boards and agencies (centrala ämbetsverk) belonged to the ministry: the National [Swedish] Fire Service Inspectorate (Statens brandinspektion), the National [Swedish] Fire Service College (Statens brandskola), the Organization Board of the [Swedish] County Administrations (Länsstyrelsernas organisationsnämnd) and the National [Swedish] Board for Municipal War Emergency Planning (Riksnämnden för kommunal beredskap).