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Dozens of youngsters arrived in Britain last week under a fast-track scheme designed to bring unaccompanied minors from the French shanty town.

It is understood the process has been temporarily halted at the request of the French authorities, who today began attempting to relocate thousands of migrants living at the squalid site.

The influx of young people followed the landmark Dubs amendment - which committed the Government to providing safe haven for stranded children.

Most of the young refugees who have arrived in Britain so far were brought under the Dublin regulations, which require the children to have family resident in the UK.

A political row erupted last week after concerns were raised by Conservative MP David Davies that the children arriving were older than they claimed.

Meanwhile, Commons Home Affairs Committee chairwoman Yvette Cooper said there were still children in the camp with family in the UK who were now at risk of falling into the hands of people traffickers.

"That's what's really worrying because once the clearances start we know that there is a significant risk that many of those children and young people just disappear," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"That is what happened last time when part of the camp was closed without a plan for the children and teenagers, and the consequence is they slip into the arms of the smuggler rings, the traffickers, just at the point at which they might have been able to be reunited with their family, then they are lost."

The Government was also accused of "foot-dragging" by shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who added it was "disgraceful" demolition was set to go ahead before all refugees were processed and checked.

French foreign affairs committee member Jacques Myard claimed France is "very likely" to tear up the treaty which allows UK border officials to carry out migration checks in Calais after next year's presidential election.

Mr Juppe, the frontrunner to take over from Francois Hollande next year, has blamed the 2003 Le Touquet agreement, which allows British officials to check passports on French soil, for the creation of the camp.

And Mr Myard said that deal was now likely to be ditched by France.

But the Republicans party politician said it will not solve the problem of refugees and migrants gathering in France because the European Union does not properly police its external border.

Mr Myard told the programme: "It's very likely that a new government will denounce the Touquet agreement on this subject but I'm not so sure that it will solve everything because of the trend.

"And the trend has to be stop at the root, not at the end of the process."