A Hampshire MP has demanded justice for victims of a discredited pregnancy test which left a local woman with devastating birth defects.

Caroline Nokes told ministers about Vicky, whose mother was prescribed hormone tablets, called Primodos, taken by 1.5m British women in the sixties and seventies.

The Conservative MP said Vicky had been left with “a phenomenal raft of problems”, after being born an ectopic bladder and malformed feet and legs.

Ms Nokes told a Commons debate: “She also has an incomplete pelvis and significant spinal problems.

“She is doubly incontinent, and for the past 24 years she has been confined to a wheelchair. She is unable to walk at all.”

Ms Nokes said Vicky was recently in hospital for 11 weeks, undergoing three major operations and “very nearly died during one of them”.

And she added: “All that was entirely due to the fact that her mother had taken an oral hormone pregnancy test some 42 years ago.

“Vicky was born in 1972, which is well after it was known that there were problems with oral hormone pregnancy tests. That information had not been communicated to GPs.”

The debate was staged to put pressure on the department of health (DH) to “fully disclose all documents relating to the use of the hormone pregnancy tests”.

Campaigners – which include Vicky’s parents – also want an independent inquiry to examine the documents released.

In reply, health minister George Freeman delighted MPs by agreeing to the inquiry, suggesting victim’s representatives could sit on a working group.

The minister said at least 700 children across the country were thought to have been born with serious deformities, but the true number was “unclear”.

And he said: “I will be happy to instruct the release of all information that is held by the department on this case - and the setting up of an independent panel of inquiry.”

Ms Nokes said, of Vicky’s family: “They want to know what is in the documents that have not yet been made publicly available.

“The family support the calls for an independent panel to examine the documents, to come to an understanding of what went wrong and to give them the answers that they so desperately seek. I do not think those are big asks.”

The tests have been called the “forgotten thalidomide”, likened to the infamous morning sickness which left thousands of babies with abnormally short limbs – or none at all.

A link between Primodos and birth defects was first suggested in 1967, but warnings were not distributed to doctors in 1975 and it remained on the market until 1978.