The Department of Environment has issued significant further material affecting compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) in local authorities. These include: 1. a consultation paper on housing management CCT, and 2. DoE Circular 10/93. The number of housing management functions intended to be exposed to competition has been reduced significantly from earlier proposals. Housing benefit administration, right to buy, and homelessness functions have been removed from the CCT requirements. In other news, although Business Expansion Schemes (BES) may not immediately spring to mind as being relevant to the public sector, many housing associations and higher education bodies have used BES to finance rented accommodation for those in housing need and for students.