24-40  Public Expenditure by Function
				(HKD 100 million)
Item	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005+
Community and External Affairs	82.62	82.25	80.77	80.76	82.13
Economic	124.86	137.14	137.48	149.87	149.12
Education	514.08	522.32	547.85	564.96	557.32
Environment and Food	113.37	112.07	114.43	108.47	104.38
Health	327.53	342.13	331.99	342.31	323.55
Housing	426.06	320.55	240.31	252.77	195.23
Infrastructure	228.20	248.78	245.90	257.77	282.45
Security	267.43	275.54	270.68	266.16	263.12
Social Welfare	281.65	300.59	322.82	337.86	341.19
Support	309.27	352.22	342.97	350.05	354.10
Total	2675.07	2693.59	2635.20	2710.98	2652.59
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.