In 1974 a Labour home secretary set up a judicial inquiry (under Lord Scarman) into the disorders that led to Mr Gately's death.
In August, the UN general secretary set up a high-level panel of eminent people to devise an framework for future development.
Lord Adonis, then transport secretary, set up Directly Operated Railways, a not-for-dividend subsidiary of the Department for Transport, to manage the service.
"You can't run a policy based on a misdirection, on a fiction," says Elizabeth Warren, who, as a special adviser to the Treasury secretary, set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "Our priority will always be the safety and welfare of young people in custody – that is why the justice secretary set up an independent improvement board to examine the running of Medway STC.
The home secretary set up the inquiry following a series of revelations about how undercover officers formed long-term relationships with campaigners they had been sent to surveil, and gathered information about the parents of Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered in 1993.
The home secretary set up the review, headed by the NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless, in July 2014, after criticism that the Home Office had failed to investigate historical abuse claims thoroughly.
Head teachers' leaders are demanding the education secretary sets up an independent inquiry into this year's GCSE results.
"In 2007 he and Alan Milburn [the former health secretary] set up a thinktank called 2020 Vision.
Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, has set up a Scottish trade board to compete with domestic investment agencies.
