Dacre wrote: "the existing rule seemed to condone unnecessary secrecy rather than protecting necessary confidentiality.

Additionally, because of unnecessary secrecy surrounding Phoenix Echo, only a handful of people knew its capabilities and limitations.

To her mind, the laboratory is now answering for decades of pollution, unnecessary secrecy and arrogance.

It is an undemocratic institution that operates with unnecessary secrecy.

The classification system is a scandal that weary generations of sensible officials have decried, imposing unnecessary secrecy on millions of documents.

A Labour back-bench bill to widen freedom of information and do away with unnecessary secrecy was given an unopposed second reading in the Commons today.

This proposed new regulation is an important milestone on the road to abolishing unnecessary secrecy in government.

This competition involves taxpayers' money, and there is unnecessary secrecy about the use of taxpayers' money.

"This is an important step in the movement toward eliminating unnecessary secrecy in the courts."

That and a commitment to end Justice's obsession with secrecy of recent years: unnecessary secrecy in its own affairs and in government generally.