Agenda: presentation of the Government’s annual report at the State Duma, plans for a unified register of citizens entitled to state support in obtaining better housing.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
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The Government delivered its 2024 performance report to the State Duma yesterday.
I would like to thank everyone who worked on the report, held consultations with State Duma parliamentary parties and engaged with relevant committees. I also want to thank Vyacheslav Volodin and Valentina Matviyenko for their personal input to the constructive interaction between the Cabinet of Ministers and Parliament.
Our dialogue with the deputies was as open as possible. We discussed our performance during the past year and the progress made on the key tasks set by the President, and reviewed our efforts aimed at ensuring Russians’ well-being, higher quality of life, and economic growth. On a more general level, we considered Russia’s resilience to the current challenges.
We thoroughly reviewed the results of the national projects, our major tools to address the country’s demographics, health care, education, research, culture, development of modern infrastructure for life, support for industry, and small and medium-sized businesses.
We also discussed the details of the new national projects that were launched in January. We devised these initiatives to focus on sustainable economic growth consistent with an increase in Russians’ prosperity and corporate incomes, as well as an upsurge in private investment, in keeping with the Presidential instructions.
This is also relevant for our projects aimed at achieving Russia’s technological leadership, primarily through promoting the development of critical products and innovations domestically. This will give us independence from foreign products – a point that was also highlighted yesterday.
A special part of the report addressed measures to support the participants of the special military operation and their families. Undeniably, supporting these people has been and will remain among the Government’s absolute priorities. Another group entitled to unconditional support includes the residents of our border areas and Russia’s new regions, who are struggling with a number of problems today.
The proposals put forward by the deputies must be thoroughly reviewed and carefully refined. Based on yesterday’s discussion, a list of instructions with specific deadlines should be compiled.
I would like to ask Dmitry Grigorenko to oversee this process.
Today, the Government meeting’s agenda includes an issue that was also raised in the recent report, specifically, the improvement of living conditions.
We will review a bill proposing the creation of a unified registry of citizens eligible for state housing assistance. This includes, first and foremost, families with children, low-income families, people with disabilities, veterans, those relocating from the Far North and others. Currently, information about these groups is scattered across various federal, regional and municipal information systems. Decisions on housing allocation are made by the entity that owns the property. Additionally, Russian regions can implement their own support measures, as seen in Yakutia.
To enhance efficiency in this area, a unified registry is needed. This will help create an open and transparent waiting list of eligible housing recipients. The new centralised database will compile information on subsidies and social benefits for purchasing or building homes.
These proposed changes are part of a broader effort to achieve the national goal set by the President – creating a comfortable and safe living environment.
We hope that these legislative amendments will expedite the approval of decisions on providing housing for those in need while also ensuring timely monitoring of regional efforts to support these citizens.
