MPs in Britain are to hold an emergency debate in parliament on allegations a tabloid newspaper hacked into the phone of a murdered schoolgirl.
A private investigator working for the News of the World is accused of hacking into the phone of Milly Dowler while the 13-year-old was missing.
In what is being described as a highly unusual move, the Speaker of the House of Commons has given permission for an emergency debate on the allegations, the BBC reports.
Labour MP Chris Bryant accused the News of the World of ''playing God with a family's emotions''.
In the upper house, former Conservative Party Chairman Lord Fowler said an inquiry was needed in the wake of ''one of the biggest scandals affecting the press in living memory''.
Home Office minister Baroness Browning said the government would await the outcome of a police investigation before deciding whether further action was necessary.
Milly Dowler went missing in March 2002 near her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Her remains were found in remote woodland at Yateley Heath in Hampshire six months later.
A nightclub doorman was convicted of her murder in June.
