NEXT year's budget will see Powys re-set its funding with many millions of pounds of unachieved cuts taken out of it.

It was also revealed at the council's cabinet meeting that a panel of four will looks at the levels of undelivered savings across the council's departments.

The panel will be made up of finance portfolio holder, Cllr Aled Davies, council leader, Cllr Rosemarie Harris, deputy chief executive, David Powell, and head of finance , Jane Thomas.

These changes follow a joint meeting of the Audit and Finance Scrutiny Panel last month that raised concerns that some departments ran overspends year after year.

The scrutiny members recognised that since 2015, £7 million of "savings" had not been made.

They believed that if they were undeliverable they should be removed and achievable savings built in.

This means, that in the next few month the panel of four will be looking to delete nearly £4 million of these unachievable savings from next year's budget.

Cllr Aled Davies said: "We're setting up a new panel to check and make sure they (savings) are deliverable going forward.

"Each of those savings will be presented to the panel.

"They (undelivered savings) go back three or four years and will be dealt with in this current budget round.

"They obviously add to the budget pressures for the council."

Cllr Davies added that of the £7.7 million savings that were supposed to be made this year, more than £3 million of that comes from previous years.

Cllr Davies said: "Before we even set last year's budget there were these long term savings that had to be delivered, but we will be taking a view on that.

"It's important that we don't let these undeliverable savings sit on the books for years without addressing them."

"I hope that gives a little reassurance to the robustness towards future savings."

Deputy chief executive David Powell said: "The point around previous years' savings is absolutely critical.

"We have taken a very strong policy in this council that if you agree to make a saving, that saving will be delivered. Many councils take a view of re-setting the budget every year and it takes pressure off undeliverable savings.

"We are taking an opportunity next year to re-set the budget, by taking out £3.9 million of undelivered savings.

"That's very close to the predicted overspend of £3.8 million.

"We have a budget that can be delivered for next year

Mr Powell also pointed out to the cabinet that PCC had also received a statutory recommendation from the Wales Audit Office requiring to look again at the way they review savings."