To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the First Minister’s answer to question S3F-1053 on 25 September 2008 (Official Report c. 11225) was accurate given that the figures published by it, and referred to in the answer to question S3W-16934 by Adam Ingram on 11 November 2008, show a decrease in the number of nursery teachers. Data on numbers of pre-school teachers is collected in two ways in the Scottish Government''s annual pre-school and childcare census “ head count, or physical numbers of teachers and whole-time equivalent (WTE).