24-40 Public Expenditure by Function
					(HKD 100 million)
Item	1999/2000	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004+
Community and External Affairs	91.30	82.62	82.25	80.77	85.26
Economic	122.72	124.86	137.14	137.48	155.61
Education	503.07	514.08	522.32	547.85	577.48
Environment and food	124.96	113.37	112.07	114.43	112.13
Health	318.94	327.53	342.13	331.99	344.85
Housing	458.72	426.06	320.55	240.31	278.54
Infrastructure	229.33	228.20	248.78	245.90	263.63
Security	258.82	267.43	275.54	270.68	274.56
Social Welfare	276.16	281.65	300.59	322.82	339.97
Support	310.82	309.27	352.22	342.97	359.80
Total	2694.84	2675.07	2693.59	2635.20	2791.83
Notes: Public expenditure comprises government expenditure (i.e. all expenditure charged to the General Revenue Account and financed by the
Government's statutory funds excluding Capital Investment Fund), and expenditure by the Trading Funds and the Housing Authority. But not
included is expenditure by those organisations, including statutory organisations, in which the Government has only an equity position, such as
the Airport Authority, the MTR Corporation Ltd and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation. Similarly, advances and equity investments
from the Capital Investment Fund are excluded as they do not reflect the actual consumption of resources by the Government.
+Revised estimate.