The phrase "abandoned a scheme" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the decision to stop pursuing or implementing a particular plan or project.
Example: "After much consideration, the committee decided to abandon a scheme that was no longer feasible."
Alternatives: "discarded a plan" or "dropped a project".
Theresa May, the home secretary, announced in July 2010 she would abandon a scheme to remove violent partners from the family home.
British Gas says it is abandoning a scheme offering free or subsidised insulation to homes in Clifton, Nottingham.
NHS England has abandoned a bizarre scheme to force cancer patients at the renowned Churchill hospital in Oxford to be loaded into an ambulance and driven four miles down the road to use private sector scanners rather than be scanned on site by NHS staff.
Britons who arrived in the U.K. as unaccompanied child refugees fleeing conflict have accused the government of moral failing after it abandoned a landmark scheme to help children facing the same plight today.
And the evidence from other cities is that similar "license plate schemes" may have failed: France was forced to abandon a similar scheme it attempted this year, and research from Mexico City suggests that people often buy cheaper, less efficient cars with different license plates in an attempt to get around the bans (there's a lot of evidence that Beijingers have managed to flout the rules, too).
Criminal barristers are preparing to step up their protests over cuts to fees as Labour calls on the government to abandon a payments scheme for publicly funded cases.
His ratings plummeted after he announced a new tax on wealthy mining companies, and abandoned an emissions trading scheme.
Responding to strong business pressure, budget negotiators abandoned an ill-conceived scheme to extend the state's 4percentt sales tax to the healthiest segment of the state's sagging economy - services like public relations, advertising and management consulting.
Late Tuesday Mr. Chávez announced the surprise decision to abandon a controlled devaluation scheme and let the currency float.
Mr Rudd, having also decided to abandon a supposedly cherished trading scheme for carbon emissions, was deposed by his colleagues and swiftly replaced by Julia Gillard, now the incumbent, who dropped Mr Rudd's tax proposal and negotiated a new one with the mining companies.
