EXCLUSIVE: The hunt for Madeleine McCann CONTINUES as Home Office approves Met Police’s request for cash to pursue a ‘final line of inquiry’ 11 years after youngster vanished
The Home Office allocated an unknown amount to the Met's Operation Grange
Detectives investigating the disappearance applied for more funding in February
More than £11 million has been spent so far on the probe to find the missing girl
The hunt for Madeleine McCann will continue after the Metropolitan Police Service was granted more funds to continue the 11-year-long search.
The Home Office revealed today that it had allocated further funds to the Met's investigation to hers disappearance - Operation Grange.
A representative said: 'The Government remains committed to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
'We have briefed the Metropolitan Police Service that its application for Special Grant funding for Operation Grange will be granted.'
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann applied for more funding for the search in February.
Government funding for the investigation has historically been agreed every six months, with £154,000 being granted from October last year until the end of March.
More than £11 million has been spent so far on the probe to find the missing girl, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007, aged three.
The exact figure allocated for the ongoing investigation is not yet known.
Madeleine, three, vanished from an apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007 while her parents were eating tapas with friends at a restaurant nearby.
She would now be nearly 15.
Operation Grange has been one of the longest, most high-profile and costly police investigations in history.
Launched in May 2011, officers have sifted (and translated) 40,000 documents produced by Portuguese police who conducted the initial investigation, and by the eight teams of private detectives who have worked on the case.
Some 600 'persons of interest' have been examined and 'sightings' of Madeleine — in Brazil, India, Morocco and Paraguay, on a German plane and in a New Zealand supermarket — assessed.
The Portuguese investigation of Madeleine's disappearance was criticised by the British authorities as being not fit for purpose.
Scotland Yard began an investigative review into the disappearance in 2011, on the orders of then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
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