James Murdoch has stepped down as chairman of satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
Mr Murdoch, who relinquished his role as News International executive chairman in February, said in a letter - he did not want continued focus on the phone hacking scandal to affect BSkyB.
John Whittingdale is the chairman of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee:
"...I had expected that he would have stepped down at the time when it was announced that he was returning to New York, and its perhaps a little surprising that it's taken this long"