Criticism has also been fired at the financial transformation programme over its lack of financial rules and clarity from the central team over what savings were legitimate.
It follows today's release of the independent review, commissioned by the Public Accounts Committee and undertaken by KPMG, which highlighted how consultant Capita had been paid for some key FTP projects before the savings have been realised.
PAC chairwoman Heidi Soulsby said 'only time would tell' if FTP savings were sustainable and KPMG had made it clear that ongoing monitoring was vital to ensure benefits were sustained and planned savings were actually made.
'This is a huge project. It cost £5.1m. for the fees and onto this you have the £7.9m. capital cost of the SAP and STSC (shared transactional service centre) project and a totally unquantifiable cost of resources,' she said.
'We will only know if they are sustainable if they are monitored.'
