MPs could 'formally summon' Brooks
The Commons culture committee will meet this morning to decide whether to summon News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to appear before them over phone-hacking.
The cross-party group of MPs wants to question News Corporation executives Rupert and James Murdoch but may be unable to compel them to appear, the BBC reports.
On Tuesday, the committee invited Brooks alongside both Rupert and James Murdoch to give evidence at the House of Commons about the phone-hacking scandal, although none have yet responded.
In a statement, the cross-party group of MPs said serious questions had arisen about the evidence Brooks and the News of the World's former editor Andy Coulson gave at a previous hearing in 2003.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will today deliver a speech setting out his response to the developments in the phone-hacking scandal.
Business in the Commons today begins with questions to business secretary Vince Cable and his ministerial team.
Sir George Young will then deliver the forthcoming parliamentary business and take questions from backbench MPs.
The Commons will then debate the remaining stages of the Sovereign Grant Bill.
Labour MP Graham Allen will lead the adjournment debate on the effects on public expenditure of cross-departmental early intervention.
On committee corridor, the political and constitutional reform committee discusses the prospects for codifying, or not codifying, the UK Constitution.
And the health committee hears from Dr David Bennett, chair and interim chief executive of Monitor the body designed to ensure fair competition to provide NHS services.
In the Lords, peers will set questions to the government on encouraging young people to pursue careers in the creative industries, homophobic bullying in schools, protecting patients with diabetes and the decision to award the Thameslink rolling stock contract to Siemens.
The upper chamber will then continue its scrutiny of the Localism Bill.
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