The 17 main central government departments spent £287m on redundancy payments to civil servants last year, Cabinet Office figures have revealed.
The Ministry of Justice topped the list at £89m followed by the Department of Work and Pensions with £67m in 2012-13.
The statistics also showed that the Whitehall departments paid out £506m on consultants and short-term staff.
The Cabinet Office said it had put an end to excessive consultancy spending by bringing in stringent controls.
Analysis of the data by the Times put the overall cost of consultants and temporary staff at nearer to £800m.
The newspaper arrived at the figure by including money spent on specialists helping with projects such as as HS2, Universal Credit and the West Coast Main Line.
It also added "off-payroll" staff such as short-term or interim managers.
'Better value'A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: "We've already put an end to excessive consultancy spend by establishing stringent controls across government, saving over £1.6bn in 2011-12 compared to the level of spending in 2009-10.
"Cabinet Office delivers projects across a wide range of high-profile policy areas. It is sometimes necessary to recruit for specialist business-critical roles.
"Such roles are only authorised where the skills are not readily available within civil service and where using temporary labour is better value for taxpayers' money than hiring full-time staff."
Last year, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude accused the previous government of using consultants as a "comfort blanket".
The coalition was trying to reduce dependence on consultants, he added.
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