Philip Hammond, the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the debate was a "travesty of a scrutiny process".
The CQC may have made some deservedly well-publicised balls ups recently but it inherits a scrutiny process that has had an undeniably positive effect on the industry as a whole, and which anyone in the know will tell you remains something to which the rest of Europe aspires.
The move means the proposed deal will face substantial scrutiny on antitrust questions, a process that could take months.
For this project, six notable dancer-choreographers, including Vanessa Anspaugh and Eleanor Smith, each created her own short dance before offering it to the scrutiny of the group — a process meant to highlight subtle forms of collective influence and authorship.
This is why all medical practices and ideas must be subjected to free and intense critical scrutiny, and that is a process you can see in any medical journal, at any hospital journal club and in any scientific conference, where academic presenters frequently find their claims being attacked in an extremely direct and uncompromising fashion.
The odd thing about Blair is that he has some quite distinct – and awful – musical taste of his own, but when he went on Desert Island Discs his selection went through a scrutiny process more stringent than that for the Brit Awards, with all the yoof in his office consulted on what selections would least open him to ridicule.
These are awkward old coals that need not be raked over too much, because as the man chosen to head the NEC, Mr Summers does not have to be confirmed by the US Senate, a scrutiny process that can sometimes go awry if too much embarrassing material is discovered.
"I am expecting that it will raise some important questions and issues that need to be resolved, but that's the whole point of having a scrutiny process about legislation," he told BBC Wales.
The truth however is also that if they were so to subject themselves to such a scrutiny process it would undoubtedly find them wanting.
