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My Number Information full investigation Office (First)

Overview

  • Date and time: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 (2023), from 13:40 to 14:00
  • Location: Main Hall, 2nd Floor, Prime Minister's Official Residence
  • Order of business
    1. Opening Remarks, Minister for Digital Transformation
    2. Recent Incidents Related to My Number
    3. Efforts by Relevant Ministries and Agencies Related to information linkages to Ensure the Accuracy of full investigation Using the My Number System (Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications)
    4. Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio instruction

Materials

Summary of proceedings

1. Opening Remarks

Minister for Digital Transformation Kono delivered an opening address.

2. Recent incidents related to My Number

Minister for Digital Transformation Kono explained about the recent incidents related to My Number. In addition, Digital Agency Secretariat explained about My Number Information full investigation.

3. Efforts by relevant ministries and agencies related to information linkages to ensure the accuracy of full investigation using My Number

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Kato and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Matsumoto explained the efforts of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications related to information linkages to ensure the accuracy of full investigation using My Number.

4. Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio Instructions

The Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio instructed as follows.

Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio instruction

As for the My Number, it has been confirmed this week that there are cases in which there are errors in the linkage. We take all the cases seriously, and as I showed last week

  1. Full investigation of relevant information and systems
  2. Creation of a mechanism to prevent new errors from occurring in the future
  3. Careful responses to dispel public anxiety

Based on these three basic policies, please further strengthen measures.
First of all, at the Minister Kono, please make a full investigation for the procedures related to the My Number. Please summarize that a full investigation will be made by around this autumn for all the data available in Mynaportal, not only the relevant data for which a series of errors have been confirmed. Second, in order to thoroughly implement recurrence prevention measures, please review the Cabinet and Ministerial Ordinances related to the registration of the My Number, such as checking all four pieces of information to confirm the My Number: name, address, sex, and date of birth, by around this autumn. Third, please abolish the insurance card in the autumn of next year, and make use of a grace period of up to one year, a total of two and a half years, to dispel public concerns about the integration of the insurance card and the My Number Card.
In addition, Minister Katoh, please complete the full investigation of the area under your jurisdiction by this fall, and carefully respond to each and every concern over the abolition of the insurance card in coordination with medical care caregivers and others. At the same time, please carefully explain that the abolition of the current insurance card is necessary for the realization of a high-quality sustainable medical care in digital society.

Minister Matsumoto, in order to contribute to the smooth operation of the local full investigation where the local government work is implemented, please coordinate with the local local government and improve the environments for the elderly and the disabled to obtain cards.
In addition, each ministry and agency should complete the full investigation of the field under their jurisdiction by this fall in cooperation with Digital Agency.

The trust of the people is essential for transition in digital society. The government, local governments, and related organizations should make all-out efforts to restore the trust of the people in My Number System as soon as possible, with the Government of Japan in a position to respond to the novel coronavirus as effectively as possible. Please make every effort to restore the trust of the people in local government.

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