The Home Office admitted employing a dozen illegal workers, 11 Nigerians and a Ghanaian. Ten of them were cleaners at Beckett House, the headquarters of the UK Border Agency, which is responsible for vetting immigrants.
The two others worked as a chef and a security guard at the Home Office itself - regarded as among the country's most likely terrorist targets.
Altogether, three Government departments, 34 local authorities and 54 NHS Trusts admitted hiring a total of 249 illegals since 2006. Six were employed as teachers at secondary schools, while four became doctors, according to the newspaper.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: "The most worrying thing about this is that the Home Office clearly carried on employing illegal immigrants despite being warned two years ago that there was a problem.
"It suggests that the security in the Home Office is inadequate and that Ministers are complacent about the issue."
But a spokeswoman for the Home Office said: "The 12 illegal workers identified since 2006 were all sub-contractors, none of them were directly employed by the Home Office."
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