Caring for People's Livelihood

128.    Government has devoted substantial resources to improving people's livelihood.  Apart from education, healthcare services and social welfare are also the main areas of government spending.  The estimated recurrent expenditure on these three areas for 2016-17 is $198 billion, accounting for 60 per cent of recurrent government expenditure.  This represents an increase of over 80 per cent when compared with ten years ago.