(BBC) Payments to France to help tackle migrant Channel crossings should be finalised in “the coming weeks,” Security Minister Damian Hinds has said.
The UK promised France £54m in July to boost police patrols at its beaches.
But on Saturday, a French minister complained that “not one euro” had been transferred so far.
Mr Hinds insisted the payment timetable was an “administrative” matter to resolve, “not a political question.”
The number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats has increased in recent days, after a recent improvement in the weather.
