24-40  Public Expenditure by Function
					(HKD 100 million)
Item	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006
Community and External Affairs	82.25	80.77	80.76	77.63	79.53
Economic	128.04	127.39	137.48	129.84	137.34
Education	526.76	552.47	547.85	541.23	555.76
Environment and Food	112.07	114.43	108.47	101.45	96.92
Health	342.13	331.99	342.31	322.28	316.39
Housing	315.71	235.97	248.55	179.69	158.74
Infrastructure	262.72	260.34	271.33	287.74	258.87
Security	275.54	270.68	266.16	255.41	251.11
Social Welfare	300.59	322.82	337.86	332.85	338.26
Support	352.22	342.97	350.05	343.25	309.63
Total	2693.59	2635.20	2710.98	2571.37	2502.55
Notes: Figures for 2005/2006 are revised estimate.
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.
Expenditures by those organisations (including statutory organisations) such as the Airport Authority, the MTR Corporation Ltd and the
Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, in which the Government has only an equity position, are not included.  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.