But they refused to accept a recommendation that they should not set up intermediate addresses to process postal vote application forms.

But it failed to reach agreement on whether to accept a recommendation to allow police officers to be made compulsorily redundant.

Congress chose to accept their recommendation, but only voted the funding for a steam-powered fog-signal.

In a fine example of doublespeak, the department said it accepted his recommendations.

The government accepted the recommendation and instead launched a 4.5m awareness campaign to try to recruit 25m people onto the organ donor register by 2013.