Ministers to spend extra £100m on stopping small boat crossings to UK

Home Office's announcement follows growing number of protests outside asylum seeker hotels

Ministers will spend an extra 100m on measures to deter Channel crossings, including on the planned one in, one out" returns agreement with France, the Home Office has said.

In a third immigration policy pledge within 24 hours, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the money would pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers, as well as new technology and equipment to step up intelligence-gathering on people-smuggling gangs.