The culture, media and sport committee will question John Yates, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, following comments he made to MPs last year that the Met could only prove that hacking took place in a small number of cases.
Yates, who may appear before the committee as early as Thursday, told the home affairs select committee in September the Met would only be able to act in about 10-12 cases because the Crown Prosecution Service had adopted a narrow interpretation of the legislation which outlaws it.
He said the CPS had advised that convictions could only be secured if it were proved that voicemail messages had been intercepted by a third party before they had been listened to by their intended recipient.
The former Labour minister Chris Bryant, who believes his own phone was hacked, said in the Commons last week that Yates had misled parliament by claiming the Met's hands were tied because of the advice from the CPS.