The Liverpool tapping-up scandal could be investigated by MPs following the failure of the club to compensate the family involved.

The newly re-elected chairman of the Culture, Media & Sport select committee, Damian Collins, told Telegraph Sport he wanted to examine what he branded an “appalling” case.

That could see the select committee convene a public evidence session to which representatives of Liverpool or the Premier League would face being summoned.

“I think it’s incredibly serious and something that the committee should look at,” said Collins, who stressed any decision on calling such a session would not be taken until the committee reforms after parliament’s summer recess.

The Liverpool tapping-up scandal was dramatically reignited this week when the club were accused of submitting a “falsified” document to the Premier League while trying to lure a 12-year-old from Stoke City. They deny any wrongdoing.

The Premier League was then accused of threatening to sue the boy and his family who blew the whistle on the case after he was left unable to play academy football until Stoke are paid £49,000 compensation and his parents were left in thousands of pounds in debt in private school fees.

“It’s appalling and what is shows is that no-one is standing up for the victim and the victim is the boy,” added Collins, who said Liverpool were “honour-bound” to pay both the school fees of the boy, now 13, and the compensation.