NATIONAL PUBWATCH CAMPAIGN

That this House supports National Pubwatch's Court not Cautions campaign; recognises that the campaign is a response to the continuing trend for assaults on staff working in pubs, bars, shops and other licensed premises to be dealt with by way of police caution or fixed penalty ticket; understands that victims of such assaults feel let down by the justice system; believes that current practice is not a sufficient deterrent; and calls on the Government to ensure that the perpetrators of assaults on licensees are rightly pursued in the courts.