I do not have a problem with protecting Government. I do not have any difficulty with matters that are secret, of necessity, being kept secret. However, I have a difficulty with the fact that where secrecy is offered without being accountable it will be used for far more than is needed. This raises the issue of why many of the State papers that are disclosed every New Year's Day needed to be kept secret for 30 years. Apart from the privacy of certain individuals, very little of what is eventually disclosed really needed to be kept secret for so long.