The Commons education select committee said it had decided that the Education Secretary and permanent secretary Chris Wormald should be recalled.

The announcement comes weeks after Mr Gove wrote to the cross-party group of MPs to insist he had "never been made aware" of bullying allegations, following Labour claims that he may have misled Parliament.

No date has been set as yet for the new session, the committee said.

Last month, Mr Gove said he was not was aware of allegations of special advisers "acting inappropriately to civil servants" in his department.