Ross entered the National Assembly on 1 December 2009; he filled the
casual vacancy that arose when
Cobus Schmidt died. Ross was appointed to the
Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Deputy Minister of Energy as part of a major reshuffle done by DA parliamentary leader
Athol Trollip in September 2010. in February 2012, Ross was appointed to the role of Shadow Deputy Minister of Finance by newly elected parliamentary leader
Lindiwe Mazibuko. After Ross was re-elected for a full term as a Member of Parliament in the
2014 general election, he remained as Shadow Deputy Minister of Finance. The following year, DA leader
Mmusi Maimane reshuffled his cabinet which saw Ross become a DA representative on the
Standing Committee on Public Accounts. In October 2015, Ross wrote SCOPA chairperson
Themba Godi requesting that the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Transport
Dikeledi Magadzi appear before the committee for postponing hearings into the
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's financial misconduct. Ross unsuccessfully stood for re-election to the National Assembly in
2019, having been ranked low on the DA's candidate lists. Ross was then sworn in as a DA councillor in the
Nala Local Municipality. He was elected a full term in council in
2021. By 2023, he was serving as the chairperson of the municipality's Finance Committee. ==References==