British drinkers were plied with yet more advertising, annual expenditure rising to £200m by 2000.
Corporate expenditure rose by 0.6% in the quarter, after declining since the start of 2012.
Meanwhile, current expenditure rose by a disappointingly high 5% year-on-year in April.
In a single financial year between 2006-07 and 2007-08, it points out, local government pensions expenditure rose by 10%too £5.2bn.
In Denmark public expenditure rose from about 18 percent of national income in 1950 to nearly 60 percent in the 1980s.
In the United States, overall public expenditure rose from 20 percent of gross domestic product to around 30 percent by the mid-1980s.
Capital expenditure rose by 1% in the final three months of 2009, the first increase in seven quarters.
Between 1991-92 and 2008-09, thousinging benefit caseload remained almost identical, at around 4.2m, yet expenditure rose from £10.2bn to £18.3bn in real terms (2011-12 prices).
GLOBAL military expenditure rose by 4% in 2008 to a record $1.46 trillion, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
It is a very big thing to watch your surplus of income over expenditure rise every year from £306,737 ($650,773) in 1979 to £33m ($55m) in 1998.
