24-41  Public Expenditure by Function
					(HKD 100 million)
Item	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Community and External Affairs	80.77	80.76	77.63	77.97	81.33
Economic	127.39	140.53*	129.84	128.83	136.17
Education	552.47	569.48*	541.23	539.11	530.53
Environment and Food	114.73*	108.77*	101.74*	96.66	103.05
Health	331.69*	342.01*	321.99*	316.16	320.53
Housing	235.97	248.55	179.69	154.09	146.51
Infrastructure	260.33*	271.34*	287.74	254.54	229.07
Security	270.68	266.16	255.41	247.92	254.83
Social Welfare	318.20*	333.33*	332.85	332.62	340.46
Support	342.97	350.05	343.25	301.92	313.15
Total	2635.20	2710.98	2571.37	2449.82	2455.63
Notes : Figures for 2006/2007 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.