Some employees of her company, which finds work for the long-term unemployed in the separate Work Programme, were subject to a fraud investigation before her appointment.
A senior US administration official said: "The programme is subject to oversight by the foreign intelligence surveillance court, the executive branch, and Congress.
"While work is progressing well and we're aiming for an end of 2016 target for the Thames Valley," it said, "the programme is subject to change and alteration as the scope and needs of the overall project also change".
Participation in the European Life and Physical Sciences (Elips) programme is subject to final negotiations, but the UK science minister David Willetts said he had been convinced by the arguments in favour of joining.
The programme is subject to rigorous review and is complemented by ongoing follow-up procedures and audit checks.
The STAND programme is subject to piloting and process evaluation in line with the MRC framework for complex interventions.
Moreover, these local programmes are subject to alteration by sleep deprivation (Cirelli, this issue).
BC patients excluded from organised screening programmes are subject to further inequalities when they present for mammographic follow-up in the clinical setting.
Although different (cross-sectional) studies, in particular from Scandinavian countries [ 20] and a newly released study from Israel [ 18], suggest that preschool vision screening is associated with a reduced prevalence rate of amblyopia, the value of these programmes is subject of a continuing scientific and health policy discussion [ 21].
This article considers the tensions that arise when participative service provision and programmes are subjected to evaluation scrutiny by managerialist bodies.
