デジタル庁が９月発足　内閣直属の司令塔、関連法成立―自治体システム統一

　内閣直属の「デジタル庁」新設を柱とするデジタル改革関連６法が１２日の参院本会議で、与党などの賛成多数で可決、成立した。菅義偉首相が旗を振るデジタル庁が９月１日に発足する。同庁をマイナンバー活用拡大、地方自治体の行政システム統一化などに向けた司令塔とし、行政手続きのオンライン化推進や利便性向上を目指す。
　デジタル庁は首相をトップに５００人規模でスタート。幹部職員を含め１００人以上を民間から採用する。他省庁への勧告権など強い総合調整機能を与え、デジタル化を阻害してきたとされる行政の縦割り打破を図る。（2021/05/12-13:05）

Japan's parliament Wednesday enacted a package of digital transformation bills including one to establish the proposed digital agency, marking progress in a policy field Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga focuses on.
   The package of six bills cleared the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, by majority vote at the day's plenary meeting after passing the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, last month.
   The new agency, to be headed by Suga, will be launched Sept. 1 with a staff of about 500. More than 100 people will be hired from the private sector.
   It is set to play the leading role in promoting the digitalization of administrative procedures, expansion of the use of the My Number system for social security and taxation identification and the integration of local government administrative systems.
   The agency will have strong functions as a coordinator in the government with authority to make recommendations to other departments, so that it can break down bureaucratic sectionalism, regarded as a key impediment to digitalization.