Dominic Cummings has answered MPs' questions earlier thanin April 2016
MPs have backed a movement demanding Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings seems earlier than a choose committee by 20 June.
Damian Collins, who chairs the committee, mentioned efforts to ask Mr Cummings to look had been "unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion".
And there was now "no alternative" however to ask all MPs to help a movement ordering him to look, he mentioned.
Mr Cummings has mentioned he can't seem whereas different inquiries proceed and has accused the committee of grandstanding.
The Commons unanimously accredited a movement demanding Mr Cummings agree to look earlier than the Digital, Culture Media and Sport Committee on or earlier than 20 June, as a part of its inquiry into "fake news".
Mr Cummings has argued that there are "legal issues" about him answering questions, due to a separate inquiry by the Electoral Commission.
But Mr Collins mentioned there was "a certain irony" that somebody who had run a profitable marketing campaign to revive powers to Parliament "seems to hold that institution in such contempt".
He mentioned there have been "important questions" for Mr Cummings to reply in regards to the EU referendum marketing campaign and, in reference to Mr Cummings's complaints about different investigations by the Electoral Commission and Information Commissioner, mentioned the matter was not "sub judice" and Mr Cummings was not earlier than the courts.
"His decision not to come, whatever he says, is one of his own making. It's a deliberate attempt to deny Parliament its right to question witnesses on matters of importance," Mr Collins mentioned.
He added it was "the first time since 1920 that a motion of this kind has been put before this House".
Hilary Benn, who chairs one other choose committee mentioned if potential witnesses started to assume "'I don't have to turn up,' then how can we continue to do our job .... in holding the powerful to account?" and prompt laws be drafted to take care of individuals who refused to attend.
The movement was backed by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom. And Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who additionally chairs a choose committee, referred to as Mr Cummings's actions "a disgrace" and agreed with Mr Benn that it was time to think about introducing a penalty for witnesses refusing to look.
It had been reported that Mr Cummings had supposed to return to the Commons whereas the difficulty was being debated, however he was not in the general public gallery for the controversy.
He has accused the DCMS committee of "grandstanding" and wrote in response to a letter from Mr Collins: "I am calling your bluff. Your threats are as empty as these from [Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Philip Hammond and Brexit Secretary David Davis] to the EU. Say what you want, I can't come to your committee no matter what number of letters you ship or whether or not you ship characters in fancy gown handy me papers.
"If one other committee behaves moderately and I may give evidence with out compromising numerous authorized actions, then I'll think about it. Once these authorized actions have completed, presumably this yr, will probably be straightforward to rearrange if another person desires to do it."
The MPs are how consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the information of hundreds of thousands of Facebook customers worldwide. The London-based firmwhich introduced it was closing in Mayis accused of buying information from as much as 87 million Facebook profiles to be used in political campaigns. Cambridge Analytica has denied any wrongdoing.
There have additionally been questions on hyperlinks between Cambridge Analytica and the Vote Leave marketing campaign. Vote Leave spent £2.7m on the providers of Canadian digital company AIQ in the run-up to the June 2016 EU referendum and AIQ has admitted it additionally carried out work for Cambridge Analytica's mother or father firm, SCL.
The leaders of the opposite foremost Leave marketing campaign, Leave.EU, are on account of give evidence to the committee on 12 June. Former Cambridge Analytica chief Alexander Nix appeared earlier than it on Wednesday.