休業協力に臨時交付金　自治体の活用認める―西村再生相

　西村康稔経済再生担当相は１９日、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大防止で地方自治体が施設や店舗などに休業要請をする際に支払う協力金について、緊急経済対策に盛り込まれた「地方創生臨時交付金」の活用を認める考えを示した。内閣府で記者団の取材に応じた。
　臨時交付金は、感染の拡大防止策として自治体が地域の実情に応じ、必要な事業を実施するために創設される。２０２０年度補正予算案には１兆円が盛り込まれている。（2020/04/19-14:58）

The Japanese government will allow local governments to use economic revitalization grants to give financial support to businesses that meet government requests to close operations amid the coronavirus epidemic, Economic Revitalization Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Sunday.
   The extraordinary grants will to be created to help finance projects that local governments implement to prevent a further spread of coronavirus infections in line with the local situations. The government has set aside one trillion yen for the subsidies under a fiscal 2020 supplementary budget.
   Nishimura told reporters that he has agreed with Seigo Kitamura, minister for regional revitalization, to allow the grants to be used for various forms of financial support to businesses.
   The government plans to fix the amounts of subsidies to be distributed to each local government by looking at the number of infection cases and local medical systems, Nishimura said.
   After the central government declared a state of emergency, the Tokyo metropolitan government announced plans to use its own funds to pay up to one million yen each to businesses that comply with its request for closures.