MORE than £45million worth of savings is set to be discussed by Lancashire County Council next week.

The proposed savings, which would come from more than 30 services, are part of the county council's challenge of saving £167million by 2021/22.

A council spokesman said the savings are not expected to have a negative impact on frontline service delivery.

The savings are coming from efficiencies, recurrent underspends, income generation and service charges.

Cllr Geoff Driver, leader of the county council, said: "The county council's financial situation is clearly extremely challenging and one of our key priorities is to create a more financially stable council that will enable us to future-proof our improvements to critical services for the most vulnerable in our communities.

"This detailed line-by-line review of all service budgets has identified significant savings and is a very helpful first step to putting the council's finances on an even keel.

"Clearly we will need to make more savings in the future and we are working very hard to look at how we can do that in a way that allows us to protect front-line services.

"Every council in the country has to make decisions about how it uses its resources and we are absolutely committed to funding those services that we know people value, by reopening libraries, investing in good quality roads and local environments, and supporting bus services."