The UK Border Agency's new e-Borders programme, costing so far at least £1.2bn, will not be able to count migrants in and out of the UK until 2015 at the earliest, despite having been commissioned back in 2003.
In 2000, when Comerica Bank moved its branch within Detroit's downtown Renaissance Center to a location that could not accommodate the 160-foot long mural by Glen Michaels, which had been commissioned back in 1975, the artwork had to be taken out.
He genuinely wanted me to get a proper job, but other stuff was commissioned off the back of the programme.
The source of this generalisation is again Unum's centre at Cardiff. Gordon Waddell, an orthopedic surgeon with academic interests in the field of back pain, was commissioned by the DWP to write Is Work Good For Your Health and Wellbeing?
Ellison's inquiry has official backing as it was commissioned by home secretary Theresa May.
"I think they could be commissioned to come back.
A rapper could be commissioned to report back from a failing school.
All three were commissioned off the back of the Francis Inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal.
By the next morning, as I was reaching for the Nurofen and scrolling through the haze of the previous night, trying to recall whether I'd said anything stupid, a column had been commissioned and there was no going back.
The plays were commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland back in 2011, and I've been working on them for three years.
