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BUDGET 97: REPORTS
Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations
Province of British Columbia

TABLE H6
EXPENDITURE BY FUNCTION 1
CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND
  Actual
1993/94
Actual
1994/95
Actual
1995/96
Revised
Forecast
1996/97
Budget
Estimate
1997/98
Annual
Rate of
Growth
1993/94
to
1997/98
  ($ millions) (per cent)
Health 6,288.4 6,586.4 6,789.9 7,073.5 7,296.9 3.8
Social services 2,704.7 2,890.1 3,035.9 2,990.6 2,977.7 2.4
Education 4,983.7 5,251.8 5,495.1 5,767.3 5,836.0 4.0
Protection of persons
    and property
986.7 1,043.1 1,090.4 1,109.6 1,034.7 1.2
Transportation 1,030.0 909.0 856.4 868.9 804.9 (6.0)
Natural resources and     economic development 1,139.8 1,497.3 1,174.2 1,047.4 868.5 (6.6)
Other 627.0 569.2 2 472.4 2 522.6 498.0 (5.6)
General government 236.9 246.7 256.3 266.4 249.3 1.3
Debt servicing 915.7 967.1 977.4 955.7 905.0 (0.3)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 18,912.9 19,960.7 20,148.0 20,602.0 20,471.0 2.0

Expenditure by function has been restated to conform more closely to the presentation used by Statistics Canada.
To conform to the 1997/98 budget estimate, expenditure has been restated to reflect an accounting policy change in respect to tangible capital assets. The effect of this change is that the acquisition of certain capital assets is no longer charged to expenditure, rather these purchases are charged to capital asset accounts which are then in turn amortized or depreciated over the estimated useful life of the asset. The effect of this restatement is to reduce expenditure by $33 million in 1994/95 and by $22 million in 1995/96.


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