The phrase "announced a scheme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the declaration or introduction of a plan or program, often in a formal or official context.
Example: "The government announced a scheme to improve public transportation in the city."
Alternatives: "revealed a plan" or "introduced a program."
Ford, which faces similar problems, also announced a scheme.
In February he announced a scheme to create activist cells in 100,000 churches by 2000.
In December Visa announced a scheme that will allow Indians to withdraw money from ATMs using fingerprint readers, verified against biometric data held in the national database.
Then, just before the release of a U.N. report, the regime announced a scheme to build 31,000 houses and small factories and shops for those uprooted by the operation.
(Theresa May, the home secretary, has already announced a scheme for locally elected police commissioners).The best of times, and the worstThere are uncertainties about how some of these plans will work in practice.
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Mr Denham will announce a scheme under which companies, charities and government departments offer internships.
And he will announce a scheme that would give seriously ill patients access to drugs around a year before they were licenced for general use.
In the Queen's speech this autumn Gordon Brown's government will announce a scheme to institute a database of every telephone call, email, and act of online usage by every resident of the UK.
Concern over the impact of online porn in 2013 spurred the government to announce a scheme to force internet users to decide whether they wanted their provider to block websites showing adult content.
Greece had announced a similar scheme more than a year ago but, to date, no one has been fired from the public sector where posts had been seen as jobs for life – until now.
