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Fifth meeting of the Liaison Conference of Ministries and Agencies Concerned with Business digitalisation

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Overview

  • Date: Friday, September 27, 2024, from 13:15 to 14:00
  • Location: Online
  • Agenda:
    1. Opening
    2. Business
      1. Computerization of subsidies for business operators and a complete survey of administrative procedures
      2. Response to digitalisation by Public Procedures
      3. Utilization of Public Relations Materials on digitalisation by Businesses
      4. Introduction of New Functions of the Electronic Procurement System (GEPS) (Procurement of Small Amounts of Goods)
      5. Status of Consideration of Employment Subsidy DX
    3. Closing

Material

Minutes, etc.

Members present

Chairman

  • HASUI Tomoya (Deputy Director-General, Group of Strategy and Organization, Digital Agency)

Member

  • Kojiro YOSHIZAWA (Deputy Director-General of the Cabinet Secretariat Cabinet (assistant to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretariat))
    *Attendance by proxy: Taku Ito (Director Cabinet Secretariat (assistant to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Cabinet Secretariat))
  • Rika Kishida Ko (Cabinet Secretariat Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation Realization Conference Office, Deputy Director-General)
  • Hiroshi Yoshida Taira (Cabinet Secretariat Digital Administrative and Financial Reform Council Secretariat Deputy Director-General)
  • Seiichi Ito (cybersecurity, Cabinet Office, Informatization Deputy Director-General)
    *Representative: Toshiaki Takahashi (Director of the cybersecurity and Information Technology Promotion Office, Cabinet Office Minister's Secretariat)
  • Hironori Shigematsu (Deputy Director-General, Head of National Police Agency)
    *Attendance by proxy: Ryuichiro Kobori (Director of Planning Division, National Police Agency Director-General's Secretariat)
  • Yu Ozaki (Deputy Director-General, Financial Services Agency Office of Directors)
  • Naoki Kanazawa (Director-General, Planning Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Minister's Secretariat)
  • Koichi Nakamura (cybersecurity, Informatization Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Justice Minister's Secretariat)
  • Yukio Saida (cybersecurity, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Informatization Director)
    *Representative: Mitsue Morita (Director, Information and Communications Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister's Secretariat)
  • Tomoyuki SAISU (Deputy Director-General, National Tax Agency Director-General's Secretariat, Ministry of Finance)
  • Takashi Fuchigami (General Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister's Secretariat)
    *Attendance by proxy: Taro Shin Nakamura (Director, Administrative Reform Promotion Office, General Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
  • Lin Hongxiang (cybersecurity and Jinhua Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)
  • Toshikatsu Mino (cybersecurity and Informatization Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)
  • Tomohiro Ushiyama (Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Minister's Secretariat, in charge of IT Strategy)
    *Representative: Manabu Moriya (Director, Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau)
  • Tomohiro Okada (Manager, Business Support Division, SME Agency)
    *Attendance by proxy: Akira Shin'ichi Yamamoto (Director, Productivity Improvement Support Office, Management Support Department)
  • Takeshi Yamashita (cybersecurity and Informatization Deputy Director-General, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure
  • Kazuya KUMAGAI (cybersecurity, Informatization Deputy Director-General, Ministry of the Environment Minister's Secretariat)
    *Representative: Kengo Akashi (Director, Environmental Information Office, General Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Environment)
  • Masanori IEGOYA (cybersecurity, Ministry of Defense, Informatization Deputy Director-General)
  • Yoji Kamiguchi

Minutes

Hasui Deputy Director-General: Now that it is time, I will open the 5th Inter-Ministerial Liaison Meeting on Business digitalisation, etc.

My name is Hasui from Digital Agency, and I will be in charge of the conference. Nice to meet you.

As for today's meeting, all members are attending online. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend.

The materials are as I have sent you in advance.

Now, let's get down to business.

The first item on today's agenda is the computerization of subsidies for business operators and a comprehensive survey of administrative procedures.

The second is on the status of digitalisation of official procedures.

The third is about the use of public relations materials on digitalisation by business operators.

The fourth is the introduction of a new function of the electronic procurement system (GEPS) (procurement of small amounts of goods).

Fifth, regarding the status of consideration of the employment subsidy DX.

Here are 5.

First of all, we will go to the first item on the agenda, "Computerization of subsidies for business operators and a complete survey of administrative procedures."

Last year, in the Interim Report on Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform, it was decided to aim to use jGrants or digitalisation as a general rule when applying for subsidies for business operators. In response, we have received your cooperation on the subsidy survey. With your cooperation, we have been able to finalize the survey to a certain extent.

As I have already informed you at this Liaison Meeting, I would like to start a comprehensive investigation of administrative procedures this time, and the person in charge will explain the details.

Nice to meet you, Director for Policy Planning Yoshida from Digital Agency.

Director for Policy Planning Yoshida: Thank you for your introduction, this is Yoshida from Director for Policy Planning, Digital Agency.

Thank you very much for your cooperation in the investigation of the subsidy application. Today, I would like to explain the progress of that and the investigation of the electronic status of administrative procedures.

First of all, with regard to the computerization of subsidies for business operators, as I have been saying recently, based on last year's review of administrative projects, since fiscal 2025, we have been conducting a survey on the application of subsidies for business operators in the context of developing possible environments in online application, and in principle, we will computerize subsidies that meet the requirements in gray.

We are investigating subsidies that actually meet the requirements, and the numbers in the red box are the ones that we are presenting as subsidies that will be subject to computerization. If there are no circumstances for computerization yet, we are thinking of using jGrants.

With regard to subsidies that meet the requirements I just mentioned, I would like to directly ask Digital Agency to promote initiatives to digitize these subsidies, and support the consideration of the use of jGrants, etc. I would like to properly follow up and see to what extent they are actually digitized.

Other than that, we will support those who want to use it even if it is less than 100 subsidies, so we would like to hear from you.

We would like to follow up in the form of a dashboard on how many subsidies are actually eligible and what the status of consideration is, and we would like to check how far the computerization of subsidies has progressed.

We will hold briefing sessions on the use of the jGrants for PMOs and officials in charge of the original division of each ministry and agency in the future, and we hope that you will take advantage of such opportunities to advance efforts to digitize subsidy applications, so we appreciate your cooperation.

In addition, at the Advisory Council on Decentralization Reform, we have received requests from local governments on whether or not the issue Fund provided by the national government can be clearly identified in a list. We have basic data on the issue Fund, so we would like to organize it as well. Please understand that the administrative staff would like to contact you again about how to organize it.

Next, regarding the survey on all administrative procedures, as I have been saying, in order to advance the computerization of each administrative procedure using the common functions provided by Digital Agency, we are considering conducting a survey on what kind of procedures exist in the entire administration and in what form they are or are not being computerized.

Until FY 2021, the IT Office in Digital Agency, or in Cabinet Secretariat before that, conducted an investigation in the form of an inventory of administrative procedures. However, when the digital method was established, we are thinking of conducting it as a legal investigation. In terms of what kind of general-purpose electronic system it is actually possible to shift to, I think there are many administrative procedures that have been added since the investigation in FY 2021 in the first place, so we would like to conduct the investigation in two phases.

The Phase 1 survey will be a survey on exactly what kind of administrative procedures are conducted by the government as a whole. Furthermore, in Phase 2, we are planning to conduct a survey on where electronic systems are used and what kind of procedures are conducted electronically. As for the survey method, we are thinking of using a survey tool called DXS this time, just like the electronic subsidy application survey.

In fact, I believe that this is what we were aiming for in the administrative procedures and inventory. In a sense, I believe that understanding how many procedures exist in the government, what kind of procedures are there for business operators and what kind of procedures are there for individuals, and to what extent they are computerized through such a survey will be very important information for promoting digitalisation of each ministry and agency, and from the perspective of what procedures the government manages, it will also be important information.

What is shown here is a dashboard of the results of the inventory survey conducted in fiscal 2021. By updating the contents so that they can be viewed, it will be easier for each ministry and agency to check how far the computerization has progressed.

In the past, in fiscal 2021, the inventory survey was conducted in the form of Excel, so it took a lot of time and effort. There were also leaks of information and human errors here and there, and I recognize that it caused a considerable burden on each ministry and agency. By using DXS, we would like to create an environment in which people in each original division can directly input data and an environment in which data is collected immediately, so that we can provide an environment in which we can respond more quickly.

In addition, we are considering whether or not we can reduce the input burden on people in the field by utilizing the generated AI this time. Based on the latest information from the previous input items through the generated AI, suggestions on what kind of updates are expected will be displayed on the far right. By suggesting parts that do not need to be changed and some parts, we believe that the input burden on people in the field can be significantly reduced. We would be very grateful if you would cooperate with us while utilizing these parts.

As for the schedule, from the beginning of October, around October 14, I would like to spend about two months investigating what kind of administrative procedures exist in Phase 1 investigation. Based on that, from mid-December, I would like to start Phase 2 investigation and investigate how much of it has been computerized.

Prior to today's Inter-Ministerial Liaison Meeting, I have already explained to the Document Division of each Ministry and Agency that we will advance such initiatives, and I would like to ask for your cooperation, although I am very sorry to say so, as it may impose a burden on those on the ground.

That's all from my side.

Hasui Deputy Director-General: Thank you.

If you have any comments or questions about the current explanation, please let us know.

As you explained, I would like each ministry and agency to advance the online implementation of subsidies for business operators, and in that case, I would like them to consider actively utilizing jGrants.

In addition, regarding jGrants, as I explained earlier, the Advisory Council on Decentralization Reform has pointed out that issue Kin, which is a direct issue from the national government to local governments, should also be published, and I hope that each ministry and agency will actively consider publishing issue Kin, which is under their jurisdiction, in jGrants.

Finally, for the first time in three years, we will conduct a comprehensive survey of administrative procedures based on the Digital Administration Promotion Act, and for the first time, we will use an online survey tool. We would like to use advanced technologies such as generative AI to reduce the workload of those who are in charge of practical work as much as possible, so we would appreciate your cooperation.

Next, I would like to move on to Agenda 2, "Status of Response to digitalisation, etc. for Public Procedures, etc." and Agenda 3, "Utilization of Public Relations Materials on digitalisation by Business Operators."

Regarding Agenda Item 2, last year, with the cooperation of the relevant ministries and agencies, I would like to ask them to explain the expansion of online tax return filing and deposit inquiries utilizing the Mynaportal Collaboration.

In addition, with regard to Item 3, in cooperation with relevant organizations in National Tax Agency, measures to support the digitalisation of business operators are being publicized. Please explain the details of these measures.

I will ask Deputy Director-General Saisu of National Tax Agency to explain all of them. I am sorry, but I would appreciate it if you could continue to explain. Deputy Director-General Saisu, nice to meet you.

Saisu Deputy Director-General: This is Saisu from National Tax Agency, . Thank you as always, Hasui Deputy Director-General.

Then, I would like to explain based on the materials.

First of all, I would like to talk about the final tax return that can be filed without going to the tax office. With the cooperation of related ministries and agencies, e-Tax has made considerable progress. We would like to further expand this and further promote initiatives that will make taxpayers feel more convenient. In the box above, with the cooperation of each ministry and agency, we have been able to inform more than 2,600 organizations, and I would like to express my gratitude for your cooperation.

In addition, Final Income Tax Returns are filed every year, and in order to file Final Income Tax Returns for income for 2024, it would be very convenient to further expand the use of e-Tax and to link Mynapo within e-Tax. We would like to ask for your cooperation in public relations activities, including such measures. We would like to ask you again in writing about the specific content.

With regard to income tax withholding slips for employment income, a function has been added to automatically fill out the slips through the Mynapo collaboration. Between February and March of this year, we were able to conduct about 60000 checks, and we would like to further expand this. We would like to ask the relevant ministries and agencies to inform the organizations and corporations under their jurisdiction. We would also like to ask the Mynaportal collaboration, which includes officials from government offices, local governments, organizations, and corporations under their jurisdiction, to cooperate in encouraging the use of the e-Tax system in My Number Card, which is extremely convenient and simple.

The specific targets of automatic input for the MyNapo linkage are written in the lower left. On the right, in order to be able to do it without electronic certification and My Number Card for smartphones, we are planning to respond in time for next year's tax return. As soon as the Apple IOS is ready, I don't think we will be able to do it in time for next year's tax return, but we will be able to respond after that.

The next page is about the expansion of the online inquiry of deposits and savings. Based on this, we are making inquiries of deposit and savings information to financial institutions for the purpose of property investigation, etc. If this is done online, the burden on the financial institution side and the burden on us, the tax authorities, will be greatly reduced. Accuracy will increase. Therefore, we would like to expand this.

With the cooperation of Financial Services Agency and other relevant ministries and agencies, efforts are being made to expand this to shinkin banks. However, if we look at individual financial institutions, there is still a lack of progress. I believe it is necessary to expand this to include participating financial institutions, securities companies, and funds transfer service providers, as well as local governments. As an immediate response, we will issue a notice calling on the Japan Payment Service Association, the Japan Credit Association, and others to respond to online inquiries, and we will also call on local governments to participate.

Page 3: It is believed that the efficiency of society as a whole and the Japanese economy as a whole will be improved by business operators working to promote digitalisation, not just taxes. Therefore, we, the tax authorities, are also working to promote digitalisation by business operators.

As indicated in the circle below, I believe that the situation varies depending on the size of the business operators. Depending on the situation of these companies, we have prepared various materials, including videos and leaflets, for small and medium-sized business operators, sole proprietors, and medium-sized and large companies, so that people can easily understand the convenience of digitalisation.

We would like to release them gradually in the future, and I believe that each ministry and agency will have various opportunities, such as lectures or study meetings with these business operators. In such cases, we make materials in a short time, so I hope you will use them to help people understand the benefits of digitalisation. We would like to share these materials gradually, so I hope you will use them.

Lastly, the electronic book storage system has been revised, and what used to be paper-based can now be stored electronically. In the future, if various business operators can exchange digital data in a way that does not require human intervention, we believe that we will be able to do various things with a single operation. If digital invoices can be handled with a system that fully supports Peppol, it will be possible to write off sales and purchases without human intervention, and we will work to realize such a convenient society.

I believe that this is an issue that all ministries and agencies must work together to advance, so I would appreciate your continued understanding and cooperation.

That's all from me.

Hasui Deputy Director-General: Thank you, Saisu Deputy Director-General.

Now, if you have any comments or questions about the explanation I just gave you, please let me know. Is that okay?

As you know, last year, as Deputy Director-General Saisu mentioned earlier, we were able to achieve certain results with the cooperation of various ministries and agencies, which was also reported at the Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform Council. We will follow up on the results of National Tax Agency's request this time as we did last year.

Regarding the deposit inquiries that you just explained, the Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform Council is also discussing it as a subject to be shared by the central and local governments, so we will follow up with that in mind. We would appreciate your continued cooperation.

Thank you, Saisu Deputy Director-General.

Next, I would like to move on to the fourth item on the agenda, "Introduction of New Functions (Procurement of Small Amounts of Goods) of the Electronic Procurement System (GEPS)." We are currently developing an electronic procurement system (Procurement of Small Amounts of Goods) in Digital Agency with the aim of reducing the cost of procurement procedures.

This time, I will explain the outline of this function. Nice to meet you, Director Ohtsuka from Digital Agency.

Ohtsuka Director: This is Ohtsuka from Director in Digital Agency, .

I would like to introduce a new function of the electronic procurement system (GEPS for short) (procurement of small amounts of goods).

First, before talking about the new functions, I would like to explain what kind of system the electronic procurement system is. The procurement by the government is mainly divided into goods and services and public works on the premise of bidding. The electronic procurement system and GEPS are common to the Cabinet Office and Ministries and are responsible for the procurement of goods and services, as indicated by the red frame on the left side of the figure.

In GEPS, procedures from qualification screening and bidding to contracts, inspections, and claims can be conducted online. However, since we do not conduct bidding for the procurement of goods worth 1.6 million yen or less, we were unable to conduct procurement through GEPS. In order to enable electronic contracts for low-value goods worth 1.6 million yen or less, we have added a new function to GEPS that supports low-value goods procurement operations and will start operation from March next year. I would like to explain the new function.

Please take a look at the figure on the lower left. In the small-amount item purchase function, the products of 5 external catalog business operators such as Amazon and Askul, which are selected by public offering, correspond to nationwide delivery, and cooperate with GEPS, and the products of internal catalog business operators which register products in GEPS in CSV format, can be searched on GEPS by product name, price, delivery date, etc., like so-called Kakaku. com, and the products you want to purchase can be selected. Although it is a figure at the time of public offering, a total of more than 72 million products will be lined up on GEPS.

This new feature enables the electronic procurement of small-value goods, which had previously been done using paper. It is expected to increase the efficiency of operations, increase competition when purchasing goods, and reduce procurement costs.

Next, I will explain the work flow by this function. In the current work, requests for quotations are made to multiple companies by e-mail, etc., the results are compiled and compared by government officials, and orders and accounting procedures are also manually entered. By introducing this function, it is possible to compare prices with multiple companies on the screen, so it is possible to reduce the time and effort required to obtain quotations from multiple companies as in the past. Efficiency is also achieved by various system cooperation, such as the possibility of system cooperation for price comparison forms, etc.

In addition, the information ordered by the system is linked to settlement and payment processing, such as requests for delivery of goods, to improve business efficiency. In particular, in terms of procurement costs, I have heard from some external catalog operators that they plan to offer some products at prices 7% to 30% lower than the general price.

As I explained on the previous page, the procurement of low-value goods is a new initiative, so I would like to provide careful explanations to each Ministry and Agency before the start of use. We have already held user briefing sessions for multiple Ministries and Agencies, and we plan to continue to hold such briefing sessions, distribute manuals, and hold user training sessions. We hope that you will take advantage of these opportunities to promote use within each Ministry and Agency.

Last but not least, we will start using the electronic procurement system's small-value procurement service in March 2025. It will take some time to introduce this function at first, but as I mentioned earlier, we can expect various benefits in terms of operational efficiency and procurement cost reduction, so we would like to ask you to actively use it.

As a reference, I have attached a table of the electronic bid ratio and electronic contract ratio based on GEPS for each Ministry and Agency. The number of contracts through the new function is larger than the number of contracts exceeding 1.6 million yen. I believe that the use of this new function will greatly contribute to the numerical improvement of the electronic contract ratio, and I hope that the use will be promoted from this viewpoint as well.

That's all from me.

Hasui Deputy Director-General: Thank you.

If you have any comments or questions about the current explanation, please let me know.

This is scheduled to be released in March next year, and I would like to continue to make it known in various ways, including before that. Is that all right?

Thank you.

The purchasing function for low-value goods that I explained this time is as I have just explained. In addition to improving operational efficiency and reducing costs such as operation costs and procurement costs, I believe it will lead to expanding opportunities for business operators to enter the market. I would like to ask each ministry and agency to consider using it actively. Thank you.

Next, I would like to move on to the fifth item on the agenda, "Status of Consideration of the Employment-Related Grant DX." Regarding the status of consideration of the Employment-Related Grant DX, which was shared by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare at the third plenary meeting, I would like to hear an explanation of the progress since then.

Then, I'm Deputy Director-General Aoyama from Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Nice to meet you.

Aoyama Deputy Director-General: .

On page 2, as you just introduced, we have been considering the adoption of DX for employment subsidies provided to employers who employ workers. Although it is possible to apply for employment subsidies online, as you can see in the square, there are many attached documents and application items such as PDFs and papers. In addition, there are various issues, such as the fact that the staff members who examine the applications check it visually by printing it out on paper. As you can see under the arrow, the "Employment Subsidy DX Review Team" was established in December last year by the directors of the relevant bureaus and has been reviewing it. The results of the review were finalized at the end of June this year, and I will report on the next three pages and beyond.

The direction of DX is broadly divided into four.

The first is a review of the existing business processes. In short, it is a simplification of the many application items and attached documents. As a result of various discussions, we aim to reduce the number of application items and attached documents by roughly half, as stated in the goal, and to abolish paper and PDF in principle and aim to complete with digital information. As a result of deleting various items and documents, including the deletion of duplicate items, and reviewing the requirements, as stated in the main content of the review, we have summarized that the number of application items can be reduced by about 30% and attached documents by about 20%, as indicated by the yellow arrow.

Further review, regarding the second and third lines below, I would like to continue to constantly review the review of business processes. This is the first review.

The second point is in the upper half of page 4. While we are working to simplify the procedures, fraudulent receipt of subsidies, such as applying with false information, is something that can happen with this type of subsidy, and we must prevent it. While we are simplifying the documents by reviewing the review process, we are also considering strengthening active investigation efforts by the government to confirm the facts before the grant decision is made in order to strengthen the proper investigation, and making it a requirement to cooperate with the investigation, such as non-payment in the case of non-cooperation with the investigation.

The third point of the review is to reduce the burden of the application process and improve the efficiency of the review. It is to review the review from the perspective of reducing the burden on the applicant and improving the efficiency of the review staff.

The first of the revisions is that the employment-related subsidies are paid using the insurance premiums of the two employment insurance services that are paid by employers. In some cases, information related to employment insurance, such as the worker's name and insured person number, is to be entered when applying for subsidies. However, we are considering not to re-enter the insured person number and address when applying for subsidies, as they are known when applying for employment insurance at Hello Work.

Also, as you mentioned about jGrants at the beginning of the agenda, at present, employment-related subsidies are not listed in jGrants, but we would like to improve convenience by considering adding employment-related subsidies to jGrants's search function and linking jGrants and the "Employment-Related Subsidies Portal," a online application system for employment-related subsidies.

The last review is the most important, and it says "digitalisation" as an attached document. I mentioned PDF and paper, but due to the nature of the grant, you need to submit a wage ledger or attendance record as an attached document. The application form for the grant is different, as employers submit it in PDF or Excel by editing data managed digitally, such as their own systems or private software. However, we are requesting a budget because we would like to conduct research and study for the utilization of digitalisation technology next year.

As for the content of the review, as I have just mentioned, we will consider whether paper and PDF analog files can be used as digital files. In (2), we have an "employment-related subsidy portal" as a online application system for subsidies. On the other hand, in terms of labor management such as employees' salaries, each company uses something like personnel and labor management software, which is often sold in the private sector, as a format, so the format will inevitably vary, but we would also like to consider exploring APIs to link with our employment subsidy portal.

The third point is the standardization and promotion of the use of attached documents. First of all, I would like to encourage the creation of electronic standard forms and the creation of attached documents using such forms. I would also like to encourage the use of the MHLW's standard forms as much as possible so that the AI OCR can be easily read, although the paper part will inevitably remain in the case of small and medium-sized enterprises. I would also like to consider other methods of creating standard data using AI.

With regard to (4), I would like to consider whether it is possible to make online application mandatory after that. We will proceed with that.

As for the final schedule, I have just mentioned the direction of the four revisions. The first is the simplification of documents, and the second is measures against illegal receiving of benefits, which will be implemented from this fiscal year, FY6. Earlier, I mentioned the reduction of the burden on applicants, such as the omission of re-entry of unemployment insurance data, and I also mentioned cooperation with the jGrants. I think that will be implemented from FY7. As for the consideration of the final document, the digitalisation itself, as I mentioned earlier, we have requested a budget for FY7, so if the budget is provided, we would like to proceed with research and study from FY7, and from FY8, we would like to consider the contents for implementation.
That's all for the explanation.

Hasui Deputy Director-General: Aoyama Deputy Director-General, thank you very much.

If you have any questions or comments about the current explanation, please let us know.

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is very enthusiastic about this initiative, and we think it is wonderful. Within the Priority Plan that has been decided by the Cabinet, Digital Agency is positioned to review not only the system, but also the way business should be, and its systems and systems, in an integrated manner. In that sense, I think this initiative is a pioneering initiative, so I will continue to follow it closely, and I hope to be able to support it. Thank you very much.

Aoyama Deputy Director-General: Nice to meet you. Thank you.

Hasui Deputy Director-General: Thank you.

That's all for today's scheduled meeting.

If you have any information that you would like to share with local businesses or any projects that you would like to work on in cooperation with the relevant ministries and agencies, I would like to ask you to share it at this Inter-Ministerial Meeting. I believe that Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is currently leading the way in doing this, and I would like to ask each ministry and agency to continue to work on it. We at Digital Agency may be able to do some things, but we will do our best to support them.

We would like to promote DX for public procedures and DX for business operators by deepening collaboration and cooperation among relevant ministries and agencies through such efforts, and we ask for your continued cooperation.

The Secretariat will contact you at a later date regarding the schedule of the next meeting.
With this, I would like to conclude the 5th Inter-Ministerial Meeting on Business digitalisation. Thank you for joining us today.