Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Truong Viet Dung on October 29 chaired a working session with the Ministry of Justice's working delegation regarding the review, reduction, and simplification of administrative procedures based on data, in accordance with Prime Minister's Directive No. 201/CD-TTg dated October 22, 2025. The delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tinh.

The delegation included representatives of specialized units from the Ministry of Public Security, the Government Office, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice.

Overview of the meeting. 

Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tinh expressed his impression of Hanoi's socio-economic achievements while operating a streamlined two-tier local government model. 

He emphasized that reviewing, reducing, and simplifying administrative procedures (APAs) aims to better serve citizens and businesses and praised Hanoi for its unified direction of eliminating paper documents for 25 fully online essential public services, replacing them with data-based verification.

Deputy Minister Tinh noted that, following directives of General Secretary To Lam, the Prime Minister issued Directive No. 201/CD-TTg on October 22, 2025, requiring ministries, sectors, and localities to focus on reviewing and reducing administrative procedures through data. 

Overview of the meeting. 

As the lead ministry, the Ministry of Justice has already issued guidance to ministries and localities and developed supporting tools to ensure progress and feasibility. 

The Ministry is also rushing to draft a Government Resolution under the mechanism stipulated in Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on special mechanisms for resolving legal obstacles, focusing on legal solutions to accelerate data-based administrative simplification.

At the meeting, the Deputy Minister requested that Hanoi clearly identify difficulties, obstacles, and proposals from actual implementation so they can be jointly resolved with the spirit of "only discuss the solutions, not the difficulties," bringing practical benefits to people and businesses and contributing to a modern and transparent administrative system.

Reporting at the meeting, Director of the Hanoi Public Administrative Service Center Cu Ngoc Trang said that immediately after receiving Directive No. 201/CD-TTg, the Hanoi People's Committee issued Official Letter No. 5748/UBND-NC on October 24, 2025, directing city departments, agencies, and the Public Administrative Service Center to implement the directive and the working group's guidance under Document No. 4735/TCT dated October 20, 2025.

Out of 734 administrative procedures with dossier components ready to be replaced by data from ministries and sectors, and after preliminary review, Hanoi identified 300 procedures under its jurisdiction, including 228 under city-level authority and 72 under commune-ward authority.

Regarding the assessment of information systems and databases for reuse in administrative processing, 15 types of documents can potentially be replaced through data extraction. Hanoi's Administrative Procedure Information System has already connected and extracted data for 3 document types (citizen ID, ID card, household registration) corresponding to 5 databases. 

It is completing connection for 3 more types (land use right certificates, enterprise registration certificates, business registration certificates) corresponding to 3 databases. However, instructions have not yet been issued for connecting the remaining 9 document types across 9 databases.

The Public Administrative Service Center highlighted key obstacles: most information systems and databases are still managed independently by different ministries, sectors, and specialized agencies; data sharing is limited, and synchronization mechanisms are incomplete. 

Some national databases have been connected, but other crucial records—such as birth and death data—have not been fully digitized, preventing real-time verification. As a result, civil servants still must request paper documents when processing applications.

Hanoi requested the inter-ministerial working group to direct relevant ministries, agencies, and organizations to complete digitization of the 15 document types to ensure they are "accurate, complete, clean, and live," creating a foundation for data extraction and elimination of paper dossiers. Ministries and sectors should review and issue shared data standards, unified electronic forms, and guidance for localities on standardizing interactive e-forms to ensure data sharing and reuse.

Affirming the leading role of the capital, Vice Chairman Truong Viet Dung stated that Hanoi is committed to piloting new models and mechanisms related to eliminating paper documents and fully exploiting data if entrusted by the central government, creating a basis for nationwide replication.

Concluding the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Tinh praised Hanoi's determined implementation of administrative simplification and its proactive coordination in reviewing and assessing initial results. The Ministry of Justice will continue to consolidate Hanoi's recommendations and propose solutions to the Government in accordance with Directive No. 201/CĐ-TTg.