Ms Rudd told the Commons that since a statement she made on the matter on October 10, almost 200 children have been transferred.

"This includes more than 60 girls, many of whom had been identified as at high risk of sexual exploitation," she added.

Ms Rudd insisted the Government has been working to speed up the process - saying officials were only given access to the camp in the last week.

Ministers have repeatedly faced criticism over the pace of efforts to transfer children with a right to come to the country either because they have family ties here under the so-called Dublin regulations, or through the Dubs amendment.

However, Ms Rudd said: "The Government has sought every opportunity to expedite the process to transfer children to the UK.

"My officials were only given access to the camp to interview children in the last week, and similarly we have only recently received agreement from the French government that we could bring Dubs cases to the UK.

"Before this we worked closely with the French behind the scenes, but without their agreement it was not possible to make progress on taking non-family cases from Calais."

In the last week, officials have interviewed 800 children in the camp claiming to have close family in the UK.

Ms Rudd said: "Every child presented in the last week has been interviewed by UK staff. Much of this work has been carried out in difficult conditions, and on a number of occasions interviews have been paused and UK staff have withdrawn for safety reasons."