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Mr Banks made his comments after the English FA discovered that only 2,500 tickets will be available for English fans to see the opening game with Colombia in Lens, near lille, on June 26.
The FA said it was "astonished and dismayed" while Mr Banks said: "This is making something of a mockery of a great footballing festival."
On Friday Mr Banks is due to attend an international seminar in Blackburn, Lancashire, on security at the World Cup and said he would use the opportunity to register his concerns about ticket allocations to French representatives.
"This seminar is all about security and this [ticket] issue will come up in quite a big way. Ticketing and security are very closely linked," he said.
"I will make sure the feelings of the football supporters, the government and the FA are made quite clear."
However, he stressed that supporters had to behave responsibly whatever the outcome of the ticketing row. "If you haven't got a ticket, don't travel," said Mr Banks.
Hopes raised then dashed
Scottish supporters received still worse news when they were told to expect only 2,000 tickets for two of their three games.
The revelation came just hours after the FA had said it expected to receive an extra 4,000 seats for English supporters.
It later corrected this figure and said the bonus tickets would probably only total a few hundred.
The FA's Director of External Affairs, David Davies, said: "Our hopes had been raised in the past 24 hours by media reports that up to 150,000 extra tickets were to be made available to be shared between all the countries taking part.
"It's become clear today that the number of those tickets England will receive is unlikely to exceed several hundred per match.
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"So our official allocation as of today can be stated as follows: for the match in Marseilles against Tunisia - 3,790; for match number two against Romania in Toulouse - 2,749; for match number three against Colombia in Lens - 2,589.
"These allocations are even smaller than we'd anticipated in the worst circumstance. Our reaction is one of dismay and astonishment."
Dismay in Scotland
The Scottish Football Association said it expected to have about 5,000 tickets for Scotland's fans for the opening match against Brazil.
But it will only receive 2,000 for the two other group games against Norway and Morocco.
SFA spokesman Andy Mitchell said: "The number of tickets available to us are much less than we expected and we are very disappointed.
"The association has written back to Fifa to ask for clarification and also to press for an increased allocation."
Mr Davies added: "Football supporters will rightly expect us to do everything in our power to maximise the number of tickets we receive for a tournament we are not organising ourselves. We know from our own experience of running Euro 96 the problems involved.
"But this afternoon, in what we believe to be the interests of supporters of all countries involved and the tournament itself, we have written to Fifa to ask their general secretary for his help.
"We know other countries have done the same. We need to know exactly how the remainder of the tickets have been allocated.
"We do not accept that this can be the final allocation for such a prestigious tournament on which quite literally the eyes of the world will be focused next summer.
"We believe France 98 can be a huge success. Supporters from across the world will want to share in it. We hope as many as possible will get the chance."
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