DETECTIVES searching for Madeleine McCann could receive a £100,000 grant to continue their investigation, it is reported.
The toddler was just three when she vanished in May 2007 while on holiday in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.
The request to the Home Office was made in the last few days as the £110,000 Operation Grange budget for 2023-24 was due to run out at the end of March.
A source close to Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry McCann told MailOnline the latest cash boost was "very welcome news".
They added: "The police obviously have leads if a request for funding has been made.
"Kate and Gerry have never given up hope and nor will they, finding Madeleine or what happened to her is paramount to them."
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Madeleine disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve region of Portugal.
She was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann and younger siblings - twins Sean and Amelie - when she went missing.
The Metropolitan Police have received £13 million from the Government since 2011 in their search for Maddie.
Operation Grange was launched in 2011 by then Home Secretary Theresa May after a request from PM David Cameron that Brit detectives should help in the hunt.