John town is to contact personnel over claims clannish investigators allegedly working for News of the World reporters intercepted his ambulatory sound messages.
The Guardian alleges News Group Newspapers paying £1m in out-of-court settlements after its journalists were accused of status in sound tapping
The essay claims the past deputy maturity minister and thousands of public figures were targeted.
News International told the essay the housing "means null to anyone here".
A Commons superior NGO has said it will investigate the claims.
Mr town told the BBC he would be contacting the personnel to ask if his sound had indeed been tapped, why was he not informed and why was no action taken.
"I had no evidence of this, though frankly a lot of the stories in the essay were reaching from aggregation that was highly private," he said. "It's quite staggering really."
'Secret deals'
The allegations stem from a court housing involving the News of the World's stag application Clive Goodman, who was jailed two eld past for tapping into the voicemail messages of stag staff.
A clannish policeman - Glenn Mulcaire - was also jailed in Jan 2007.
The court heard how he had hacked into the phones of well-known names, including supermodel Elle Macpherson, communicator Max Clifford and the Professional Footballers' Association's Gordon Taylor.
The Guardian says News Group Newspapers, the Rupert Murdoch consort which publishes the Sun and the News of the World, has secretly paying more than a meg pounds in out-of-court settlements in threesome similar cases.
"We were presented an unconditional sureness when we carried out an investigating that only one writer on the News of the World had some noesis of interceptions"
John Whittingdale MPAccording to the paper, £700,000 of that was paying to Mr Taylor, who sued on the foundation that News Group must hit famous about the sound taps.
A spokesman for News Group's parent company, News International, said: "This portion housing effectuation null to anyone here, and I've talked to all the grouping who would be involved." The BBC has still to receive a response from News International.
'No knowledge'
John Whittingdale, Conservative chair of the Commons society committee, said it would study the questionable revelations when it meets on Thursday.
"I hit to say I'm extremely astonied if it is the housing that a commercialism of a meg pounds has been prefabricated by News International to grouping who allegedly hit had their phones intercepted by an investigator," he said.
The Guardian alleges up to 3,000 high-profile figures were targeted including author Mayor Boris President and past society helper Tessa Jowell.
The News of the World application at the time, Andy Coulson, said: "This news relates to an questionable commercialism prefabricated after I mitt the News of the World two and a half eld ago. I hit no noesis whatsoever of some settlement with Gordon Taylor."
Mr Coulson, who is now the Conservative Party communications director, resigned over the Goodman affair but he denied existence aware of what was feat on.
A spokeswoman for David Cameron said the Conservative leader was "very relaxed" about the story.
"The ramping up of this news is undignified - this is about a commercialism prefabricated substantially after Andy (Coulson) mitt the News of the World," she said.
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