The UK and France are to step up joint patrols and increase surveillance to tackle a rise in the number of migrants trying to reach Britain in small boats.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who has cut short a family holiday, agreed a joint action plan with the French interior minister during a phone call.
Six more Iranian men were found on a beach near Dover on Sunday morning.
The National Crime Agency said French authorities prevented a further attempt to cross the Channel on Saturday night.
Mr Javid has come under growing pressure to act, with Labour accusing the Home Office of a "flawed" strategy and one Conservative MP urging Mr Javid to "get a grip".
Following a call with his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner, the Home Office said the pair agreed an "enhanced action plan" to be put in place in the coming week.
It includes disrupting organised trafficking gangs and raising awareness among migrants of the dangers of a Channel crossing.
The Home Office did not give details of how this would be done.
Currently, only one of the Border Force's fleet of five cutters - specialist boats which the force describes as being capable of rescuing several migrant boats at the same time - is currently operational in the Dover Strait.
The Home Office did not say whether the other four cutters would now be called back from search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean to patrol waters off England's south coast.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who has cut short a family holiday, agreed a joint action plan with the French interior minister during a phone call.
Six more Iranian men were found on a beach near Dover on Sunday morning.
The National Crime Agency said French authorities prevented a further attempt to cross the Channel on Saturday night.
Mr Javid has come under growing pressure to act, with Labour accusing the Home Office of a "flawed" strategy and one Conservative MP urging Mr Javid to "get a grip".
Following a call with his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner, the Home Office said the pair agreed an "enhanced action plan" to be put in place in the coming week.
It includes disrupting organised trafficking gangs and raising awareness among migrants of the dangers of a Channel crossing.
The Home Office did not give details of how this would be done.
Currently, only one of the Border Force's fleet of five cutters - specialist boats which the force describes as being capable of rescuing several migrant boats at the same time - is currently operational in the Dover Strait.
The Home Office did not say whether the other four cutters would now be called back from search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean to patrol waters off England's south coast.
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