No. You know, there are years when you easily get 500, so going to 1,000 is not, to me, significant.
Don't forget that there was a spike when the 5% target was introduced. The government actively tried to get businesses to register in the IBD in order to meet the 5% target. Then they found that they'd been a bit overexuberant and that some of those people shouldn't have been included, so they took those out.