The phrase "a sweeping programme of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a comprehensive or extensive plan or initiative, often in contexts related to policy, reform, or change.
Example: "The government announced a sweeping programme of reforms aimed at improving the education system."
Alternatives: "an extensive plan for" or "a broad initiative to".
When Harold Wilson's government responded with a sweeping programme of police reform Hermon embraced this wholeheartedly.
Early in 1989, the government and the ruling party announced a sweeping programme of economic and political reforms.
When he arrived in Paris with a sweeping programme of reform, Millepied found himself being criticised as an arrogant outsider, out of touch with French traditions and taste.
Its contract was renewed by the coalition in November 2010, now with far greater responsibilities as the government launched a sweeping programme of so-called "welfare reform".
Until then the infant Labour Party had been the junior partner of the Liberals, helping them to win their landslide victory of 1906 and to enact a sweeping programme of social and constitutional reform in great part inspired and led by Lloyd George.
He handed monopolistic control of trade union power to the UGT, and introduced a sweeping programme of public works.
They would represent the most sweeping programme of constitutional changes since Turkey became a republic almost a century ago.
It has also targeted DHKP-C suspects in a programme of sweeping arrests, however, and a suspected member of the group was killed in a shootout with police in July. .
Only 11 days earlier dozens of students had occupied the Bungehuis in response to a programme of sweeping changes that the university's administration was apparently unwilling to discuss.
The shock of defeat forced Russia to adopt a programme of sweeping internal reforms and industrialisation under Tsar Alexander II, who came to throne in early 1855.
In 2003, the government introduced a sweeping health reform programme aimed at increasing the ratio of private to state health provision and making healthcare available to a larger share of the population.
