He is also angered that the EHRC has been in existence 15 months without working out its funding arrangements.
Committee chair Edward Leigh told Neil Kingham, the EHRC's interim director-general, that this was no way to run a publicly funded body.
He is adamant Welsh local authorities cannot afford to step into the breach left by the EHRC by increasing core funding to equality organisations.
Research carried out by the EHRC last year revealed that disabled people are four times more likely than non-disabled people to be victims of crime.
The Commons communities and local government committee is set to look into what has been happening at the EHRC when MPs return after the summer recess in October.
The EHRC was formed in 2006 when the previous Commission for Racial Equality expanded to cover issues of age, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and the promotion of human rights.
But one member of the Joint Committee spoke up in defence of Mr Phillips, insisting that the actions of the chairman of the EHRC did not amount to a contempt of Parliament.
Many incidents against disabled people go unreported but in the last 12 months the EHRC has monitored stories in the Welsh media of incidents from name-calling to robbery, intimidation, assault, manslaughter and murder.
Labour former minister Fiona MacTaggart also criticised the way the Joint Committee's inquiry into the work of the EHRC had been handled, saying it was "more like a show trial about an individual".
The EHRC was hit by a series of resignations over the summer, and several public figures including the head of Stonewall , Ben Summerskill, and president of Mencap , Lord Rix, have called on Trevor Phillips to resign.
The EHRC wrote to Mr Griffin on June 23rd that it believed the BNP fell foul of the law in its race-based membership policy, its hiring (which appears to be restricted to party members) and what the EHRC interpreted as hints that the party would not provide an equal service to constituents of all races.
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