The search for Madeleine McCann has cost the government more than £10 million since she disappeared in 2007, a Home Office minister has revealed.
Responding to a written parliamentary question from Lord Brent of Blackwood, Lord Bates revealed that the the total cost of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is £10.1 million, as of the end of June this year.
He also said that a further £2 million is budgeted for the investigation for the next year.
In his answer, Lord Bates said: "The Home Office funds this work from the special grant budget."
"The level of funding provided to the Metropolitan Police in relation to this investigation is reviewed regularly and will continue to be monitored."
Madeleine McCann went missing on the evening of 3 May 2007, and was last seen by her parents in bed in a holiday apartment in the Praia da Luz resort in the Algarve, Portugal.
Portuguese police led the investigation into her disappearnce, and at one point declared that the parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were suspects.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were named as suspects at one point by Portuguese police
However, the McCanns were cleared in July 2008, when the country's attorney general closed the case.
The parents enlisted the services of private detectives to continue the investigation, untuil Scotland Yard opened their own Operation Grange inquiry into the case in 2011. Portuguese police re-opened their inquiry in 2013, and the two investigations are still ongoing.
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Numerous people have been questioned and sightings have been reported since her disappearance, but there are still many questions about what happened or where she is now.
A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann said they were "incredibly grateful" to Scotland Yard for their investigation, and thanked the Prime Minister and Home Office for making it possible.
