Simon Milner: To reiterate, that does not mean we think that there are no ways of improving the processes between ourselves and law enforcement. If you want to spend £2 billion of public money, though, why not use it to improve the intergovernmental MLAT process, which is a very important part of this whole regime? You could spend a fraction of that money on significantly improving that process and really help law enforcement.

Q657 The Chairman: It has also been suggested to us that our police officers or security officers in the agencies should be better trained to ask for the right information, as the existing regime has all the information there but we ain’t asking for it correctly. Do you agree with that?

Simon Milner: Absolutely. Indeed, that is why we spend time educating police officers on the process for seeking data from Facebook. […]

This sounds reminiscent of a certain LibDem speech.