23-35    Public Expenditure by Function
			(HKD 100 million)
Item	1997/1998	1998/1999	1999/2000	2000/2001	2001/2002+
Community and External Affairs	81.12	86.32	91.30	82.62	84.75
Economic	170.64	214.21	122.72	124.86	141.02
Education	470.27	484.79	503.07	514.08	525.97
Environment	130.77	133.46	124.96	113.37	113.29
Health	279.82	314.00	318.94	327.53	340.16
Housing	246.51	388.50	458.72	426.06	331.87
Infrastructure	211.66	231.32	229.33	228.20	249.41
Security	237.64	251.15	258.82	267.43	280.63
Social Welfare	217.10	263.77	276.16	281.65	307.31
Support	302.27	296.96	310.82	309.27	357.10
Total	2347.80	2664.48	2694.84	2675.07	2731.51
Notes: Public expenditure, also known as Consolidated Public Sector expenditure, includes government expenditure, total expenditure of the trading
funds, the Housing Authority and the previous Provisional Urban and Regional Councils (up to 31 December 1999), and payments from the
Lotteries Fund. Where appropriate, historical figures have been adjusted to comply with the current classification of expenditure.
+Revised estimate.