How to make `needrestart` not defer restarting some services

With unattended-upgrades duly set up to automatically do upgrades, reboots and all, I'm stumped to find output like this in its daily report sometimes:

...
Restarting services...
 /etc/needrestart/restart.d/systemd-manager
 systemctl restart accounts-daemon.service networkd-dispatcher.service polkit.service systemd-networkd.service systemd-resolved.service systemd-timesyncd.service systemd-udevd.service

Service restarts being deferred
 systemctl restart apt-daily-upgrade.service
 systemctl restart systemd-journald.service
 systemctl restart systemd-logind.service
 systemctl restart unattended-upgrades.service
...

I understand this is output from needrestart. I do not understand what sets the services that do get restarted apart from the ones that don't. What configuration do I need to change to make it restart all these services unattendedly?