During the extraordinary session of the Diet last year, many government offices were busy preparing answers until the day of the question-and-answer session at the committee, and it turned out that some government offices stayed until the early morning of the day.
When the Diet committee questions, each government office receives a question notification from the ruling and opposition parties in advance and prepares an answer, but it is pointed out that the delay in notification leads to long working hours for the person in charge.
In connection with this, Muneo Suzuki, a member of the House of Councilors of the Japan Restoration Party, issued a written statement of questions about a case in which all the questions were answered late in last year's extraordinary session of the Diet.
According to the government's response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was the slowest, at 1:01 am on the day of questioning, followed by the Consumer Affairs Agency at 11:45 pm the day before, and the Ministry of Justice at 10:25 pm the day before. It means that
In addition, many government offices were busy preparing answers until the day of the question and answer session, and the time to complete the preparation was 5:00 am on the day at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 4:40 am on the day at the Digital Agency. .
In its response, the government said, "We would like to work on improving the efficiency of related operations while gaining the understanding of the Diet."