Sir Dave Brailsford to answer questions at select committee doping hearing

Brailsford will answer questions from the 10-strong panel in person on December 19, with World Anti-Doping Agency president Sir Craig Reedie and senior officials from British Cycling also giving evidence that day.

Committee chairman Damian Collins, the MP for Folkestone and Hythe, wrote to the former British Cycling performance director earlier this month and told Press Association Sport on Thursday that the invitation has been accepted.

The 52-year-old is likely to be quizzed about Team Sky's decision to ask for therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) so its then star rider Sir Bradley Wiggins could receive injections for an otherwise banned anti-inflammatory drug before his biggest races in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Wiggins would go on to become the first British winner of the Tour de France in 2012 but both he and Team Sky deny breaking any rules over the rider's approved use of triamcinolone, a powerful corticosteroid.

That, however, has not stopped the five-time Olympic champion and his former team from being criticised for what some believe was the exploitation of a loophole.

The TUEs, which are effectively doctor's notes, came to light when a group of computer hackers known as the Fancy Bears stole data from WADA and published it online in September. But since then two further stories have emerged which have prompted an ongoing investigation by UK Anti-Doping into "claims of wrongdoing" at British Cycling and Team Sky.

The first relates to a package which was delivered to the Team Sky coach by a British Cycling employee at the end of a Tour de France preparation race in June 2011. This was shortly before Wiggins' first TUE for triamcinolone but the team and governing body have denied the package contained the drug.

The second is based on a claim by former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, who completed a two-year doping ban earlier this year, that the controversial painkiller tramadol was "freely offered" to the GB team ahead of the 2012 World Championships. The doctor that day was Richard Freeman, who then worked for Team Sky but is now at British Cycling.

Tiernan-Locke's allegations have been rejected by several of his GB team-mates and British Cycling.

Appearing with Brailsford and Reedie on December 19 will be British Cycling president Bob Howden and the governing body's ethics commission chief George Gilbert.