The session on Tuesday morning was already scheduled as part of the committee’s ongoing scrutiny into the work of the corporation.

Gary Lineker, Anita Rani, Riz Ahmed and Miriam Margolyes are among more than 500 media figures who have criticised the BBC's decision to pull a documentary about children's lives in Gaza.

The British government called an urgent meeting with the BBC on Friday over the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza that was narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy minister in the Palestinian enclave's Hamas government.

Britain's culture minister was to hold an "urgent meeting" with the BBC chairman on Friday, a day after the broadcaster apologised for "serious flaws" in a Gaza documentary aired last week. The BBC removed the documentary,

The documentary was pulled last week after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.