Police have been granted further funds to continue their search for Madeleine McCann, almost 11 years after she went missing.

The Home Office has confirmed the Metropolitan Police will receive more cash to look for the girl, who was aged three when she disappeared from her family's rented holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve coast in May 2007.

A spokesman told Sky News: "The Government remains committed to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (known as Operation Grange).

"We have briefed the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) that its application for Special Grant funding for Operation Grange will be granted."

Image: Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz on the Algarve

Scotland Yard began its most recent investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in 2011, funded by the Government, after an appeal from her parents Kate and Gerry.


Funding has been agreed every six months since then, with £154,000 granted from October last year until the end of March, bringing the total spend so far to £11m.

Mr and Mrs McCann had hired a series of private investigators, who failed to find any trace of her, and Portuguese police closed their investigation 15 months after she went missing.

In April last year, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said detectives were still following a critical lead, but detectives have refused to reveal details of the line of inquiry being pursued.