Acting Deputy Commissioner Yates faces a second committee of MPs. A senior Metropolitan Police officer is due to appear before a second committee of MPs examining allegations of phone hacking by journalists.
The home affairs committee will quiz Acting Deputy Commissioner John Yates after claims that he misled MPs about the inquiry into the News of the World.
Mr Yates has already denied the claim in a hearing before the culture and media select committee.
MP Chris Bryant accuses Mr Yates of underestimating the extent of hacking.
Mr Bryant, who believes his phone was hacked, made the allegations. He is also due to appear in front of the home affairs committee, shortly before Mr Yates.
He has accused Mr Yates of misleading Parliament by claiming, based on the advice he said police received, that there were only eight to 12 victims of News of the World hacking.
The committee chairman, Labour former minister Keith Vaz, said: “The committee takes these allegations very seriously.
“We hope that the evidence given by Mr Bryant and Mr Yates will clear up the question of whether or not Mr Yates knowingly or unknowingly misled the committee.”
Last week, Mr Yates said Mr Bryant’s claim that he had conspired with the News of the World to protect journalists from phone-hacking allegations was “materially wrong”.
He maintained that prosecutors had advised it was necessary to prove a voicemail message had been intercepted before the phone’s owner accessed it to show an offence had been committed. However, the Crown Prosecution Service has denied defining this “narrow approach”.
Scotland Yard launched a new investigation in January following new information about the phone hacking.
The first investigation led in 2007 to the convictions and imprisonment of then News of the World journalist Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
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