France has bought more vehicles to prevent people crossing Channel to UK

Interior ministry says they spent a further 9m on vehicles equipped with monitoring equipment

The French government has bought another 100 vehicles to help stop people from travelling by small boats to England across the Channel as part of a deal with the UK government, it has been announced.

Amid a deepening political row in parliament over the growing number of people taking the hazardous route, the interior ministry in Paris said on Tuesday that it had spent a further 9m on quad bikes, 4X4s, boats and vehicles equipped with monitoring equipment.