Marina Hyde argues that HarperCollins' alleged internal solution of advising women to work in pairs and avoid the author's home was a failure to protect staff.

“But I have to say I have some sympathy with those women's rather depressing alleged tradeoff because what the Telegraph story says is that as well as one five figure payoff, the internal solution to this the alleged problems with David Williams was that women should see him in pairs and not go to hi”

Richard Osman claims that HarperCollins' internal response to the allegations against David Walliams was inadequate and amounted to a cover-up.

“if that is true in 2024 that a corororation or 2025 that a corporation put those measures in place, then oh dear me, cuz I'm not quite sure who you're protecting there. It seems much more like you're protecting your very lucrative author than you are protecting your staff.”