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. |  |