As energy and food prices continue to rise, the government will hold the first meeting of the "Comprehensive Price, Wage and Lifestyle Countermeasures Headquarters", and Prime Minister Kishida will give points that can be widely used to households that have saved a certain amount of electricity. We have shown a policy to introduce a support system.
As energy and food prices continue to rise against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Kishida is accepting consultations on companies operating supermarkets in the Tokyo metropolitan area and consumer issues at the Prime Minister's Office today. We interviewed the current situation from the executives of.
After that, the government held the first meeting of the "Comprehensive Price, Wage and Lifestyle Countermeasures Headquarters" to work on comprehensive measures for prices and the economy.
Among them, Prime Minister Kishida said, "First of all, we will steadily and swiftly implement comprehensive emergency measures with a business scale of 13 trillion yen, including measures for rising prices of food raw materials such as wheat, fertilizers and feeds, and measures to curb energy prices. We will protect people's lives and businesses from the effects of soaring prices. "
Regarding measures for foodstuffs, "In addition to measures to curb import wheat prices and feed costs, we combined green agriculture with bold support for soaring breeding and fertilizers with the aim of reducing production costs for all agricultural products by 10%. We will create and implement a new support fund system. "
In addition, as a measure against soaring energy prices, a new support system will be introduced to give points that can be widely used to households that have saved a certain amount of electricity. He showed the idea of introducing a system to buy power saving.
Furthermore, in the future, he expressed his intention to further increase the temporary grant for regional revitalization by utilizing the reserve fund of 5.5 trillion yen as needed, and to strengthen the support for price measures by local governments, etc. I instructed them to respond with the utmost caution.