The phrase "the programme comprised" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about a collection of things that make up a programme or a plan. For example, "The programme comprised five activities designed to grow the company's customer base."
It opened with Wagner's overture to Rienzi, but the rest of the programme comprised, in the words of an historian of the Proms, David Cox, "for the most part... blatant trivialities".
The organizational component of the programme comprised tailored advice on the practice organisation.
The programme comprised educational and organizational components, targeted at physicians, nurses and assistants, and patients.
Phase I of the Programme comprised three projects: humanitarian preparedness and response, children and armed conflict and mine action.
The programme comprised psycho-educational workshops and EIS link workers, and offering direct referral routes to EIS.
The programme comprised counselling, information, and support to patients and their primary care givers during the initial months after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease had been established.
The programme comprises work by Beethoven and Haydn as well as new commissions by Daniel Kellogg and Roderick Williams.
The programme, comprising two series and 76 episodes, first aired in 2009 and has been shown in 18 countries, seen by 25 million people, and earned Backshall two BAFTA awards.
3 4 The programme comprises screening, immunisation, developmental reviews, parental support and health promotion.
The programme comprises a three-phase approach, covering assessment, development and implementation of national Good Governance for Medicine programmes.
A second wave of the programme comprising a further nine sites started in October 2008 and will complete in September 2010.
