The Home Office briefed the media on a raid on on the Shotton Mill site in Deeside, north Wales in March 2024 warning that McCann could face fines of up to £225,000 after 13 people were arrested.

But within weeks McCann was issued with a “No Action Notice” from the Immigration Enforcement division of the Home Office after it was established that all its employees were suitably qualified to work in the UK.

FP McCann launched a legal action after the blunder and a settlement was reached in the High Court in Belfast yesterday.

The company said: “FP McCann, the UK and Ireland’s leading precast concrete and civil engineering solutions provider, welcomes the Home Office’s formal public apology for an entirely erroneous and unfounded allegation concerning illegal workers.”