Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 13 March (HL5345), and in the light of reports that Portuguese and German police are carrying out new searches, what requests they have received and what decisions they have made about the funding of Operation Grange and Metropolitan Police activities in the financial year 2025–26.

For financial year 2025-26, the Home Office provided up to £108,000 to the Metropolitan Police Service through Special Grant funding for Operation Grange, the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Special Grant funding is reviewed annually by the Home Office, and the Department liaises regularly with the Operation Grange investigation team to discuss progress and the use of funds.