Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Reiwa 4th budget draft document "Multiple mistakes" to apologize for the House of Representatives Budget Committee

Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko apologized at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives for making multiple mistakes in the related materials under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in the new fiscal year Reiwa 4th budget proposal.

There were multiple mistakes in the part under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in the "statement" that describes the specific usage of the budget bill for the 4th fiscal year of the new fiscal year submitted to the Diet by the government.

Prior to the question and answer session of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko explained, "There was an error in the breakdown of the estimation. The cause was an input error or neglect of confirmation work."

After that, he apologized, "I have to say that the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications who are involved in the office work were extremely lacking in tension, and I cannot make a complaint. I sincerely apologize for making the mistake."

He also expressed his intention to work to prevent recurrence.

In addition, Minister of Finance Suzuki said, "It is regrettable that there was an error in the description, and the Ministry of Finance will request each ministry and agency to reconfirm and scrutinize it. We will analyze the background of the error and prevent recurrence so that similar errors do not occur. We will consider measures. "

Liberal Democratic People's House of Representatives Budget Committee agrees to carry out intensive deliberation

In response to this, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party's chairman of the Diet measures met and agreed that the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives would hold intensive deliberations on this issue.

The Constitutional Democratic Party's chairman of the Diet, Mabuchi, told the Liberal Democratic Party's chairman of the Diet, Takagi, on the morning of the 24th, "It's an extremely problem. The government is loosening."

Mr. Takagi apologized and expressed his intention to have the government confirm that there were no mistakes in the materials of other ministries and agencies by the 25th.

In addition to this issue, Mr. Mabuchi requested that the Budget Committee conduct intensive deliberation on issues such as the rewriting of statistical data by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It was decided to do.