Madeleine McCann's parents have saved nearly £1million in fund to help find their missing daughter, figures reveal - as police are set to receive £100k to continue the hunt

Madeleine McCann's parents have saved nearly £1million in a fund to help find their daughter as police are set to receive a £100,000 grant of taxpayers' money to continue their search. 

Kate and Gerry have stashed away £921,819 in the past financial year, according to latest accounts filed with Companies House. 

Their huge savings are made up of donations from celebrities and the public, plus royalties from Maddie's mum's best seller book and other handouts, and dwarves the amount the Metropolitan Police are expecting to obtain from the Home Office. 

But the couple feel no need to dip into their pot, whilst Scotland Yard is still on board, and which ultimately may pay for another private search for their daughter.

Three-year-old Madeleine disappeared during a family holiday in the seaside resort of Praia d Luz in Portugal in May 2007. 

Three-year-old Madeleine (pictured) disappeared during a family holiday in the seaside resort of Praia d Luz in Portugal in May 2007

Kate and Gerry (pictured in 2011) have stashed away £921,819 in the past financial year, according to latest accounts filed with Companies House

Police are set to receive a £100,000 grant of taxpayers' money to continue their search. Pictured: British Police officers dig for evidence in 2014

As her parents are facing the poignant 17th anniversary of her disappearance in weeks, UK police are still focused on their high profile 'missing person' hunt.

Renowned heart doctor Gerry, 55, and Kate, a former GP turned medical worker with dementia sufferers, who celebrated her 56th birthday yesterday, are being kept informed of any progress in the painstaking case. 

Newly released figures show that the not-for-profit 'Madeleine's Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned' stands at a healthy sum during the financial year to the end March 2023. 

Meanwhile police have asked the Government for more money to keep the Maddie inquiry, codenamed Operation Grange, going. 

It was launched in May 2011 on orders of former Prime Minister David Cameron, and now newly appointed Foreign Secretary, and has so far received more than £13 million. 

The latest request for funds, expected to be around £100,000, is waiting to be approved. 

A Home Office spokesperson said: 'In line with our Special Grant processes, funding for Operation Grange is approved on an annual basis. 

'Funding for 2023-2024 will run until 31st March and decisions on 2024-2025 will be made in the next financial year in line with usual practice.' 

The couple's huge savings are made up of donations from celebrities and the public, plus royalties from Maddie's mum's best seller book and other handouts

As Madeleine's parents are facing the poignant 17th anniversary of her disappearance in weeks, UK police are still focused on their high profile 'missing person' hunt

Police have asked the Government for more money to keep the Maddie inquiry, codenamed Operation Grange, going. Pictured: Police search scrubland in Praia da Luz

A grant of £110,000, diminishing over the years, was paid in the current 2023-24 year. 

Jailed paedophile Christian Brueckner, 47, is the prime suspect in Maddie's disappearance. 

He was sensationally named as her alleged kidnapper and 'no body' killer in June 2020. 

He is serving an unrelated jail term in Germany for rape and is on trial accused of five other sex offences between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal.